Second-year students at North Ossetian State University in North Ossetia have initiated a petition drive. The petition is addressed to the Minister of Education and Science and demands an end to the overly intrusive promotion of military service and contracts with law enforcement agencies.

Imprisoned scholar and activist Bahruz Samedov reported inhumane conditions. He said he is confined to his cell 24/7, with the exception of two-hour walks on a meter-wide balcony.

Crimean political prisoner Eskender Abdulganiyev, sentenced to 12 years, reported being placed in solitary confinement twice after being transferred from Kemerovo Correctional Colony No. 29 to Penal Colony No. 41 in Yurga. No reason was given for his placement in solitary confinement.

The case of Nikita Zhuravel, convicted in Chechnya of desecrating the Koran and charged with treason in Volgograd, has taken a new turn: the young man disappeared while being transported. Lawyer Andrei Sabinin reported that there has been no news of Zhuravel since December 24, the day his family received a letter from Ulyanovsk, from where he was transferred.

Representatives of the Chechen diaspora held a rally outside a prison in the Austrian city of Krems. The main demand was for independent, transparent, and effective investigations into all cases of death, violence, and possible human rights violations in Austrian prisons, according to Roza Dunaeva, a human rights activist and representative of Ichkeria abroad.

The international human rights organization Freedom Now has once again drawn attention to the case of Azerbaijani opposition figure Tofig Yagublu, highlighting the rapid deterioration of his health.

The Southern District Military Court has extended the detention of four defendants in the "sixth Bakhchisaray group" in the Hizb ut-Tahrir cases until July 7. Memet Lyumanov, Rustem Osmanov, Mustafa Abduramanov, and Aziz Azizov will remain in pretrial detention. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov reported that the court rejected the defense's arguments, granting the prosecutor's motion.

Timur Agrba's defense intends to seek an overturn of the sentence, which they believe was unfounded. Lawyer Victoria Novikova stated that most of the publications that served as the basis for the conviction concerned the recognition of Shamil Basayev as a hero of Abkhazia, a position confirmed by official Abkhaz authorities.

Two teenagers from Kabardino-Balkaria, aged 15 and 17, have been arrested for attempting to manufacture explosives. Russian authorities claim they allegedly acted on instructions from a Ukrainian handler with whom they communicated via instant messaging.

Crimean Tatar human rights activist and journalist Server Mustafayev, sentenced to 14 years in prison, was transferred to a cell-type unit (PKT) in Penal Colony No. 1 in Tambov for one month. According to his wife, Maya Mustafayeva, her husband has been in strict conditions since February 2024. The prison administration previously attributed the tightening of measures to the "severity of the article."