In Ingushetia, doctor and activist Bagaudin Gaitukiev was sentenced to five years of suspended imprisonment. He was accused of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed group. He himself denied all accusations.
In Dagestan, a city district deputy from Kizilyurt, Gamzat Shikhabudinov, was detained. He is suspected of participating in a double murder 17 years ago.
The Fifth Court of Cassation in Pyatigorsk refused to overturn the verdict in the lawsuit filed by Makhachkala resident Shamil Idrisov. Previously, he was found guilty of illegal possession of a grenade and sentenced to six years. The man reported that a prohibited item was planted by employees of the Center for Specialized Execution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Crimean Tatars Servet Gaziev, Seitveli Seitabdiev, Eskender Suleymanov, Erfan Osmanov, Alim Karimov and Seyran Murtaza were transferred to Russian prisons. This was reported by the project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial".
Lawyer Alexander Nemov sent a petition to the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation to change the territorial jurisdiction in the criminal case initiated in connection with the attack on him and journalist Elena Milashina in Chechnya.
The Visaitovsky court of Grozny for the fourth time refused to satisfy the complaint of the former actor of the Grozny Russian Drama Theater Timur Debishev. He tried to appeal the investigator’s decision not to initiate a criminal case into torture.
According to ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, they want to transfer him to the Rustavi prison because there, in conditions of limited medical attention, there is a high probability of a sharp deterioration in his condition. He wrote about this on social networks, responding to the demand of ex-Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia’s party “For Georgia” to return him to prison from the clinic.
Human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law are important elements of the relationship between Azerbaijan and the European Union. However, Baku violates them, including by arresting journalists and activists, the EU statement said.
Crimean Tatar Rustem Seitmemetov was diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes. He needs an operation, but it is impossible to carry it out in prison, the project “Support for Political Prisoners” reported. Memorial".
The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has not received a petition from Russian colleagues for the detention or extradition of Russian citizen Dmitry Setrakov. The country’s authorities also did not know about the Russian’s presence in Armenia, but they promised to look into it and, if necessary, open a case, the supervisory agency reported.
Lawyers of the Memorial Center sent an appeal to the UN to Mariana Katsarova, rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia, regarding the case of journalist from Dagestan Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The message states that Hajiyev is being persecuted for his professional activities and religious views.