A new criminal case was opened against the deputy head of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty, Alsu Kurmasheva, under an article about military “fakes”. The reason was a book that the accused published in November 2022. It contains 40 stories of Russians opposing the war in Ukraine.

The Shali City Court of the Chechen Republic, as expected, denied the parole of Zarema Musaeva. He agreed with the arguments of the state prosecution and the colony. They believe that the goals of the punishment have not been achieved and Musaeva should not be released.

Political prisoners Ruslan Suleymanov and Osman Arifmemetov, held in the Novocherkassk pre-trial detention center, do not receive purchases from the FSIN prison store made by their relatives. Lawyer Lilya Gemedzhi reported on the preparation of complaints to the prosecutor's office.

A criminal case has been sent to court against the alleged participants in the attack on Pskov paratroopers during the second Russian-Chechen war. Residents of Tatarstan Ilgam Gumerov, Ilgiz Mukhametgaliev, Khaidar Razzakov and Mukhamedvali Shaikhutdinov are accused under Part 2 of Article 209 (participation in a gang), Article 279 (armed rebellion) and Article 317 (attack on the life of military personnel) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On November 3, in Sevastopol, 22-year-old Farkhad Soliev and his colleague, 33-year-old Server Aliyev, were taken to an unknown direction in a car belonging to the FSB. Since then, the relatives of the abducted people have not known anything about them.

The Shalinsky City Court of Chechnya has begun considering a petition for the parole of Zarema Musaeva. A representative of the colony in the city of Argun, where she is being held, said that the goals of the punishment had not been achieved and opposed parole. The prosecution side adheres to the same position, the Team Against Torture reported.

The Grozny Garrison Court and the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Shirvani Kazimagomedov, mobilized from Dagestan, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit without authorization in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.

Russian military police detained Russian Dmitry Setrakov in Armenia, who left the Russian Federation after the start of mobilization to the North Military District. He is being held at a Russian military base in the city of Gyumri, according to the human rights project “Go through the Forest,” which helped the man cross the border.

Participants in the last meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that the Russian authorities are not fulfilling their obligations under the decisions of the ECHR. Despite its expulsion from the Council of Europe in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is still obliged to pay compensation in cases for which complaints were previously filed.

As part of World Human Rights Day, delegations of the European Union, the British, Swiss and US embassies in Azerbaijan recalled the persecution of oppositionists and journalists in this country.