“While I survive in prison, I am sending a message of hope and resilience to those who are fighting behind these walls to preserve a democratic and independent Georgia, who are opposing Russia’s imperial ambitions here in Ukraine and everywhere,” former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in an interview. edition of NewsWeek.

In Makhachkala, police officers tortured the brothers Mukhtar and Magomedrasul Bagomedov. They were required to confess in the manufacture of explosives.

At the Manas International Airport, employees of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan detained an activist from Chechnya, Mansur Movlayev.

In the Stavropol village of Donskaya Balka, after a denunciation, the head of the kindergarten Svetlana Shelar, who spoke out against the war with Ukraine, was fired. Now local “public activists” demand that law enforcement agencies conduct a thorough investigation into the woman.

A court in Baku rejected a motion to replace detention in a pre-trial detention center with house arrest for human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. The accused also asked to be taken out of the glass cage and placed next to the lawyers. However, the judge did not grant this request.

A fine of 45,000 rubles was imposed by a court in Vladikavkaz on local resident Vissarion Aseev under an administrative article discrediting the Russian army.

The investigating authorities of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against a human rights activist, a native of Chechnya, Abubakar Yangulbaev, under the article on incitement to terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by the telegram channel "Caution, news".

A member of the HRC under the President, journalist Eva Merkacheva, turned to the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service with a request to transfer Nikita Zhuravel, who was beaten by Kadyrov's son, from the pre-trial detention center in Chechnya to another region.

Deputy of the State Duma from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov publicly supported the beating of Russian student Nikita Zhuravel in Grozny's pre-trial detention center by the 15-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov.

Forced abductions and arrests with other violations of human rights are actively practiced in the North Caucasus. This is stated in the joint report of "Memorial" and "Justice Initiative", sent to the UN.