Employees of the Center for Emergencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB detained three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who, according to law enforcement officers, in February 2000 participated in the attack on the Pskov paratroopers of the 6th company in Chechnya as part of the field detachments of Shamil Basayev and Khattab during the second Russian-Chechen war.

On May 25, a regional court in Western Kazakhstan, having considered the appeal of Elista resident Igor Sandzhiev, who fled mobilization, decided to deport him back to Russia. The man is convinced that he will face a long sentence in his homeland for desertion, and intends to continue to seek refugee status in Kazakhstan.

Lawyers of the Memorial Center sent observations to the ECHR on the complaints of three Crimean Tatar activists. They are connected with inadequate conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center.

The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentence of four natives of Dagestan, who were previously given terms of imprisonment from 15 to 17 years.

The Baku Court of Appeal rejected the complaint of public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev against the refusal to transfer him to house arrest. According to the defense, no investigative actions are being taken against Gadzhiev and his detention is unreasonable.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 37-year-old Crimean Tatar Ernes Seitosmanov to 18 years in prison.

Relatives visited two Crimean Tatar political prisoners - human rights activist and coordinator of the "Crimean Solidarity" Server Mustafayev and the chairman of the religious community "Topchikoy" Edem Smailov.

As of early May, 2,100 applications from Azerbaijan are awaiting consideration at the European Court of Human Rights. This is 2.7% of all complaints filed for investigation.

The court in Grozny for the third time refused to satisfy the complaint about the recognition of the victimized wife of the kidnapped chat moderator of the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT Salman Tepsurkaev.

On May 23, the Russian newsroom of the Finnish broadcasting company Yle reported on the decision of the UN Committee against Torture on the complaint of a Chechen refugee against Finland.