A court in Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced 59-year-old Jehovah's Witness Elena Menchikova to 4.5 years of suspended imprisonment. She was found guilty under the article on participation in extremist activities.

The Azerbaijani authorities have extended the arrest of the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan for four months.

A native of Dagestan, Omar Murtazaliev again spoke about torture and abuse of Muslims in IK-2 of the Kurgan region. According to him, FSIN employees threw the Koran on the ground and assaulted him.

The main opposition party of Georgia, the United National Movement (UNM), called on the Ukrainian authorities to investigate the facts of inhumane treatment of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili. The reason for the request was the fact that the politician is a citizen of Ukraine.

Law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia opened a criminal case for calls for extremism against blogger Adam Aushev. The reason was a video he published in 2021, reports the Sapa Caucasus telegram channel.

The Shatoisky District Court in Chechnya brought local residents Beslan Yusupov and Iles Paykhaev to administrative responsibility for disseminating the work of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. They made publicly available the composition “12 thousand Mujahideen,” which had previously been recognized as extremist material in the Russian Federation.

A search was conducted in the house of lawyer and deputy chairman of the election commission of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, Nazim Memetov. About 20 armed security forces burst into his place and seized his mobile phone and laptop. The Crimean Tatar called the actions of Russian law enforcement agencies “an act of intimidation.”

The human rights situation and the state of independent media in Azerbaijan remain a matter of concern for the EU. This was stated by the press secretary of the European Union Foreign Policy Service Peter Stano, commenting on the latest facts of arrests of journalists and political activists in Azerbaijan.

In pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Simferopol, prisoners were beaten, including on the head and with a stun gun. They were also forced to repeat the Russian anthem by heart every day. Crimean Tatar Ekrem Krosh, who suffered among others, spoke about this at a speech in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov.

In the political talk show “Meeting Place” on NTV, one of the “experts” - Russian historian, candidate of sciences Mikhail Smolin - said that there have never been any Kazakhs, Azerbaijanis or Uzbeks, and “Lenin came up with all this in 1918” .