Representatives of the Council of Europe have called on Azerbaijani authorities to release human rights defender Anar Mammadli, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Specifically, PACE rapporteur on political prisoners Azadeh Rojhan asserts that his prosecution is political in nature and that fundamental principles of a fair trial were violated during the proceedings.

The Memorial Human Rights Center has designated Romanian national Adrian-David Kercho a political prisoner; he is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony for espionage on behalf of Ukraine. The Krasnodar Regional Court handed down the verdict in March 2026, and an appeal in June upheld both the sentence and the criminal classification. Human rights defenders consider the case politically motivated and are calling for his release.

Kazakhstan’s Court of Cassation for Administrative Cases has refused to review the decisions of lower courts that denied refugee status to Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev. His lawyer, Vadim Drozdov, reported this to *Novaya Gazeta Europe*.

In occupied Crimea, the pre-trial investigation into the criminal case against four Crimean Tatar women from the Bakhchysarai district—Esma Nimetulaeva, Fevzie Osmanova, Elviza Alieva, and Nasiba Saidova—has concluded. Since September 5, the women have been reviewing the case files, according to human rights sources speaking to *Suspilne Krym*.

A resident of Dagestan’s Babayurtovsky District has been sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term for publicly calling for extremist activity. The republic’s joint court press service announced the ruling.

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has submitted a written position to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the Georgian Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), calling on the country's authorities to ensure a safe working environment for the civil society. This was reported by the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA).

54-year-old Amina Garaeva, a doctor of medical sciences and professor at the I.M. Sechenov Moscow State Medical University, has been held in the Pechatniki-6 pretrial detention center in Moscow since September 2025. She is charged with bribery as an intermediary (subparagraph "b" of Part 3 of Article 291.1 of the Russian Criminal Code).

Azerbaijani human rights activist Anar Mammadli has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Human Rights House Foundation reported this on September 7.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg has struck out 879 remaining applications against Russia involving more than 1,500 individuals and organisations. The Memorial Human Rights Centre described the decision as “unprecedented in the practice of the [ECHR], and indeed in the history of international justice as a whole”.

On August 31, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don rejected all 52 motions filed by the defense in the case of the so-called "fifth Bakhchisarai group." Judge Roman Saprunov rendered the ruling as part of the panel of judges. This was reported by Amina Seitumerova, the wife of political prisoner Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, who is a defendant in the case.