Human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rule of law are important elements of the relationship between Azerbaijan and the European Union. However, Baku violates them, including by arresting journalists and activists, the EU statement said.

Crimean Tatar Rustem Seitmemetov was diagnosed with cataracts in both eyes. He needs an operation, but it is impossible to carry it out in prison, the project “Support for Political Prisoners” reported. Memorial".

The Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia has not received a petition from Russian colleagues for the detention or extradition of Russian citizen Dmitry Setrakov. The country’s authorities also did not know about the Russian’s presence in Armenia, but they promised to look into it and, if necessary, open a case, the supervisory agency reported.

Lawyers of the Memorial Center sent an appeal to the UN to Mariana Katsarova, rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia, regarding the case of journalist from Dagestan Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The message states that Hajiyev is being persecuted for his professional activities and religious views.

The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny has completed the interrogation of victims in the case of Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Chechen resident Alimkhan Musaev to 13 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty under Part 2 of Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (banditry), Art. 279 (armed rebellion) and art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attack on the life of a law enforcement officer).

Shaban Umerov, sentenced to 18 years in prison, complained that he was placed in a punishment cell in the Verkhneuralsk prison in the Chelyabinsk region because he fell asleep “at the wrong time.” The Crimean Tatar suffers from health problems - he has high blood pressure.

40-year-old native of Chechnya, refugee Ali Batayev was released from a deportation prison in Switzerland. Thus, the country's authorities refused to deport him to the Russian Federation, where he faced torture and death.

A court in Baku did not satisfy the request for the transfer of opposition politician and economist Gubad Ibadoglu from a pre-trial detention center to a medical institution of the Ministry of Justice. A representative of the medical department stated that the prisoner's health was normal, although he himself stated that he was not feeling well.

The mobilized Dmitry Setrakov, who did not want to fight against Ukraine and left the Russian Federation for Armenia, was deported back. Now he is in Rostov-on-Don, in the military police department for the Southern Military District. This was reported by the “Go through the Forest!” project, which helps Russian citizens flee abroad.