A former soldier, a native of Dagestan, Askhabali Alibekov (known on YouTube as the blogger “Wild Paratrooper”) was released from a colony in the Krasnodar Territory. Since September 2022, he has been imprisoned in a criminal case for “discrediting” the Russian army.

The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced Zainulla Abdullaev to three and a half years probation on charges of participating in a recognized extremist movement of “citizens of the USSR.”

Crimean Tatar Remzi Memetov, sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison and serving time in a Stavropol colony, suffers from high blood pressure. He is constantly dizzy and his right eye moves poorly, the political prisoner’s wife said.

In Crimea, the court refused to satisfy the claim for the transfer from prison to a colony of the Crimean Tatar Eskender Abdulganiev, convicted in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case.

A new charge has been brought against social activist Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, who is being held in a pre-trial detention center in Baku. He is charged with Art. 213.1 of the Criminal Code (tax evasion). “The legal deadlines for conducting the investigation have expired, and new charges are being brought against Bakhtiyar,” noted human rights activist Rufat Safarov.

Members of the US Congress appealed to the Secretary of State in connection with the arrest of oppositionist and economist Gubad Ibadoglu in Azerbaijan. According to the brother of the arrested person, Galib Bayramov, the appeal calls for using all diplomatic channels for the unconditional release of former Rutgers University professor Gubad Ibadoglu.

The Investigative Committee and the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow began an investigation into the statement of police beating of a native of North Ossetia, Tamerlan Marzoev.

Police officers continue to identify those involved in anti-Semitic riots at Makhachkala airport. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the North Caucasus Federal District, 201 citizens were detained for violating public order.

On October 31, Mansur Movlaev, who fled from Chechnya to Kyrgyzstan, said that he was being tortured in a Bishkek pretrial detention center. The statement was made in the courtroom, where his appeal against the verdict of deportation from the country was to be considered. The hearing was postponed, the message was sent to the National Center of Kyrgyzstan for the Prevention of Torture.

On September 19, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia removed former political prisoner, native of Chechnya Zara Murtazalieva, from its List of Terrorists and Extremists. In 2005, she was found guilty of preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow.