The military appeal court upheld the 11-year sentence against Crimean Tatar journalist Ernes Ametov. Project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized him as a political prisoner.

In 2017, security forces broke into the house of a builder and Nalchik resident Rustam Kuchmenov. He was taken to the police department, where they tried to force him to confess to the theft. There, as Rustam recalls, he was brutally tortured, reports the Team Against Torture.

The editor of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty (Idel.Realii) Alsu Kurmasheva was recognized as a political prisoner. Previously, she was arrested and charged with failure to report herself as a “foreign agent,” the Human Rights Project “Support for Political Prisoners” reported. Memorial".

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of three Crimean Tatar political prisoners - Enver and Riza Omerov and Aider Dzhapparov. They will spend 18, 13 and 17 years in prison respectively.

The New York Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the director of Internet television Channel 13, Aziz Orujov. The applicants also demanded that repressions against independent media be cancelled.

The US has expressed concern over the arrest of four journalists and activists in Azerbaijan within a week.

Crimean Tatar philologist and journalist Seyran Saliev, sentenced to 16 years in prison, has been under preventive registration in a colony in the Tula region for six years. However, he did not commit any violations.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili again recalled that in a Georgian prison he was poisoned with heavy metals on orders from the Russian Federation. Today it became known that the wife of the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, Marianna Budanova, and a number of department employees were diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning, and she is in the hospital.

The district court of Grozny recognized as legal the investigator’s refusal to familiarize the relatives of the abducted Chechen native Movsar Umarov with the case materials.

In the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny, five imams appeared as victims in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran at a mosque in Volgograd. Those interrogated stated that Nikita Zhuravel’s actions offended the feelings of all Muslims and caused them moral harm.