For 10 years, the number of political prisoners in the Russian Federation has increased by more than 10 times and today stands at 553 people. This was reported by the Center for the Protection of Human Rights "Memorial".

The FSB detained and interrogated the Crimean Tatar Eldar Mensitov all night, and the next day he was arrested for 15 days for disobeying the police. However, according to his lawyer, he was not even on the street where Mensitov allegedly resisted law enforcement officers.

Ulker Gashimova, a 23-year-old activist from Derbent, detained in early May at Sheremetyevo Airport, was sent by plane to Dagestan after serving two administrative arrests. After landing, the FSB officers took away her documents.

In the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor asked Ansar Osmanov, an activist of the Crimean Solidarity movement, to be sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime colony. The Crimean Tatar is accused of participating in the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The hospitalization of Zarema Musayeva turned out to be an examination - the woman was immediately returned to the Grozny pre-trial detention center. Despite the critical state of health, she is denied inpatient treatment. This was reported by the “Team Against Torture”.

Magomed Abubakarov, a native of the republic, a political refugee and a citizen of Great Britain, is illegally detained in a temporary detention center on the territory of the DMIA of the Kurchaloy district of Chechnya. Together with him, another man named Umar Masaev is kept there.

The trial of activist Enver Krosh, Crimean Solidarity journalist Vilen Temeryanov and residents of the Dzhankoy district Edem Bekirov, Rinat Aliyev and Seityaga Abbozov began in the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don.

The Southern District Military Court continued to consider the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, editor of the religion department of the Dagestan publication Chernovik, and two other defendants, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov.

The former owner of the Crimean Tatar cultural and ethnographic center "Salachik" and citizen journalist Marlen Asanov has been in the ShIZO of the colony of Mordovia for more than a month. This was reported by his mother.

The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the North Caucasus Federal District has completed the investigation of criminal cases against residents of Chechnya and Tatarstan Alavdi Batykaev and Eduard Valiakhmetov.