The Grozny Garrison Court and the Southern Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Shirvani Kazimagomedov, mobilized from Dagestan, to five years in prison. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit without authorization in the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.

Russian military police detained Russian Dmitry Setrakov in Armenia, who left the Russian Federation after the start of mobilization to the North Military District. He is being held at a Russian military base in the city of Gyumri, according to the human rights project “Go through the Forest,” which helped the man cross the border.

Participants in the last meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that the Russian authorities are not fulfilling their obligations under the decisions of the ECHR. Despite its expulsion from the Council of Europe in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is still obliged to pay compensation in cases for which complaints were previously filed.

As part of World Human Rights Day, delegations of the European Union, the British, Swiss and US embassies in Azerbaijan recalled the persecution of oppositionists and journalists in this country.

The European Court ordered the Russian authorities to pay compensation to the relatives of the disappeared Chechen resident Movsar Umarov. The ECHR found violations of several articles of the Human Rights Convention against the victim: forced abduction, illegal detention, ill-treatment of his brother, improper investigation and psychological suffering of loved ones. Team Against Torture reports this.

Crimean Tatar, Master of Islamic Sciences Vadim Bektemirov, sentenced to 11 years, was beaten by employees of IK-6 of St. Petersburg. They also took away his Koran and medicine. This was reported by his wife Lemara Bektemirova.

The Gudermes City Court brought local resident Naib Manaev to administrative responsibility for distributing the songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. He made publicly available the composition “12 Thousand Mujahideen,” which the court had previously considered extremist material.

A criminal case of torture, rape and extortion in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Region was submitted to the Saratov Regional Court from the Main Investigative Directorate of Russia for consideration. Among the injured prisoners are people from Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijani authorities are eliminating all independent media and voices that expose the actions of the corrupt political elite. Six journalists have been arrested in the country recently, and this repressive machine must be stopped. This is stated in a press release from the international press protection organization Reporters Without Borders.

The Khasavyurt City Court of Dagestan sentenced local resident Shakhban Abakargadzhiev to five years in prison due to comments against the Russian army. However, the sentence was commuted, replacing the real term with three years of correctional labor.