The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a fragment of his meeting with Nikita Zhuravel, who is under investigation in Grozny for burning the Koran. Zhuravel tells Kadyrov that he wants to convert to Islam.

The European Court of Human Rights has referred questions to Russian jurisdiction regarding the 2016 attack on a bus carrying journalists and human rights activists on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya. This was reported by the Team Against Torture.

In a village in the Simferopol region, security forces detained 20-year-old Crimean Tatar Lutfiye Velieva after a search.
Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev said that the day before, employees of Center “E” carried out an inspection at the Veliyevs’ house.

As part of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a meeting was held dedicated to political prisoners of Azerbaijan. The hearings were organized by the Azerbaijan Institute for Freedom and Safety of Reporters in cooperation with a number of assembly members.

Political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev, sentenced to 12 years in prison, has lost 15 kg since July of this year. This was reported by his wife and son who visited him. The man is serving time in the Verkhneuralsk prison in the Chelyabinsk region.

After persistent requests from relatives and human rights activists, Azerbaijani social activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, who has been in a pre-trial detention center for almost a year, stopped his hunger strike on the tenth day.

A student from Ukraine, Ilya Gibeskul, has been held in a pre-trial detention center in Kaliningrad for over five months. He is accused of calling for terrorism for nine reposts on VKontakte, including the publication of a photo of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. The person involved claims that he did not make these reposts.

According to a court decision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan must pay 20 thousand rubles to lawyer Marat Ismailov. The police illegally detained him because he approached a picket participant on the street.

The Military Court of Appeal commuted the sentence of Muslim political prisoner Bakhrom Khamroev by three months. Instead of 14 years in prison, he was given 13 years and 9 months in prison, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

A court in Vladikavkaz decided to fine journalist Ruslan Totrov 20 thousand rubles under the article of inciting hatred and enmity against a group of people.