The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala arrested at least 17 people for their participation in anti-Semitic riots at the local airport. The Supreme Court of Dagestan received complaints against these decisions.

The court in Grozny postponed the hearing for the third time in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran near a mosque in Volgograd. The victims in the case are 13 imams of Grozny mosques, who again did not appear at the hearing.

Against the backdrop of how the Russian authorities brutally disperse peaceful protests and rallies, their reaction to anti-Semitic protests in the North Caucasus looks inadequate. This conclusion was made by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The Supreme Court of Dagestan upheld the verdict of three ex-employees of the republican Federal Penitentiary Service, who were found guilty of official crimes in February of this year.

The resonance of the criminal case does not affect the decision to pardon convicts if they were recruited for the war against Ukraine in the colony. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the early release from prison of police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, sentenced to 20 years, involved in the murder of human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya.

Master of Islamic Sciences, Crimean Tatar Vadim Bektemirov, sentenced to 11 years in prison, was transferred from prison in Yelets (Lipetsk region) to another colony. The family of the political prisoner has not received any news about him for more than a month and does not know where he is.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Abakar Abakarov on the wanted list, suspected of administering the “Morning of Dagestan” telegram channel. It is he who is credited with calling for unrest at the Makhachkala airport.

The military court in Vlasikha began considering appeals in defense of the publisher of Muslim literature, the head of the largest Islamic book publishing house in Russia “Umma” Aslambek Ezhaev. In February he was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2014, was released from the colony at the end of 2022 and went to the Northern Military District zone.

Over 150 cases have been sent to the courts of Dagestan under the article on violation of the procedure for holding public events. We are talking about participants in anti-Israeli riots at Makhachkala International Airport.