The Southern District Military Court sentenced Eduard Taushev and Temirali Zarakayev to 19 and 13 years in a maximum security penal colony, respectively. This was reported by Interfax, citing information from the FSB Directorate for Stavropol Krai. The defendants were found guilty of attacking the Botlikh District of Dagestan during the second Russian-Chechen war.

The threats of the Croatian authorities to expel Chechen refugees from the country contradict the norms of international law, humanitarian principles and obligations as a member state of the European Union. These were the slogans chanted by the participants of the rally in front of the Croatian embassy in Austria.

A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Igbal Abilov, editor of the Talysh National Academy News website, to 18 years in prison on charges of treason, calls against the state, and inciting ethnic hatred. He is accused of collaborating with the Armenian special services and attempting to incite ethnic hatred in Azerbaijan.

Crimean Tatar Ansar Osmanov, sentenced to 20 years, was transferred from the Novocherkassk pretrial detention center in the Rostov region to a prison in Vladimir.

Khasin Kabardaev, Arsen Aichepshev, Murat Kabardaev, Nazir Koshev and Murat Mulazhev will stand trial in the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic. According to investigators, they were part of a cell of the religious organization At-Takfir Wal-Hijra, which is banned in the Russian Federation. The defendants are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist association and participating in it.

A criminal case against the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) Anar Mammadli has been referred to the Baku Grave Crimes Court.

Ukrainian citizen Andrey Kolomiets, sentenced by a Crimean court to 10 years, was released from IK-14 in Krasnodar. He is currently in a deportation center. He had previously converted to Islam, since only Muslims supported him during his imprisonment.

A court in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has decided to temporarily arrest Chechen Mansur Movlaev, who was wanted in Russia, for 40 days. His defense has declined to appeal, calling the court's decision consistent with their client's safety.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has approved a new list of foreign agents. It includes Crimean Tatar human rights activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva. She is known for representing the interests of Crimean Tatars in court on politically motivated charges.

In Izhevsk, a native of Kyrgyzstan was sent to a pretrial detention center on charges of calling for terrorism. According to investigators, he called for an attempt on the life of the head of Dagestan on VKontakte.