The Kiev District Court of Simferopol granted the petition of the FSB investigator and extended the arrest of the Crimean Tatars. Osman Abdurazakov, Leman Zekeryaev, Ekrem Krosh, Khalil Mambetov and Refat Seydametov will stay in the pre-trial detention center for another three months, until September 23.

The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemned the Azerbaijani authorities for bringing new politically motivated accusations against well-known public activist and human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev. The applicants called on the country's leadership to release him.

Nika Gvaramia, director general of the opposition TV channel Mtavari Arkhi, was unable to get the sentence overturned. In May 2022, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced an associate of the ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili to 3.5 years in prison.

An attempt to celebrate one of the main holidays in Islam, Eid al-Adha Bairam, by Muslim prisoners in colony No. 9 in the Orenburg region, turned into the closure of prayer rooms. This is a violation of the right to fulfill religious precepts.

"I am a prisoner of war of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his local puppets," - said ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili.

Master of Islamic Sciences, Crimean Tatar Vadim Bektemirov, sentenced to 11 years in prison, was transferred to a Russian prison in Yelets (Lipetsk region).

Despite the confession to torture by the security forces and the falsification of the criminal case, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of a resident of Dagestan, Elnar Amirbekov.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don announced the conviction of Ansar Osmanov, an activist of Crimean Solidarity, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in a strict regime colony.

A well-known Moscow lawyer, a native of Dagestan, Dagir Khasavov, was released from the colony on the basis of parole. In 2020, the Izmailovsky City Court of Moscow sentenced him to six years in prison.

On June 16, Crimean Tatar activist Ansar Osmanov was sentenced to 20 years of strict regime for “preparing for a violent seizure of power” (Article 30, Part 1, Article 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and “organizing the activities of a terrorist organization” (Article 205.5). Other Crimean Tatars, members of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia, but is allowed abroad, including in Ukraine, also received long sentences.