A court in Stavropol sentenced five more participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport to prison terms ranging from eight to nine and a half years. Imam Selimkhanov, Rustam Salavov, Dzhabrail Kairbekov, Magomedali Shanavazov and Abusupiyan Dzhanayev were found guilty under Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (participation in mass riots) and Part 3 of Article 263.1 of the Criminal Code (failure to comply with transport security requirements).

For over a year, a criminal trial has been ongoing against the editor-in-chief of the independent publication Abzas Media, Sevinj Vagifgizi, which human rights activists, authoritative international organizations, and she herself consider politically motivated. Since November 2023 - almost 500 days - the journalist has been in custody. On the eve of a new hearing in her case, the international organization Reporters Without Borders (French: Reporters Sans Frontières, RSF) called for the immediate release of Vagifgizi along with other defendants. Let us recall that five of her colleagues are also involved in the case.

Former physical education teacher Server Zekiryaev filed a lawsuit against IK-1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Tula Region in connection with the unbearable conditions of detention in the EPKT (single cell-type room). Due to gas emissions from the sewer system, the political prisoner suffers from nausea and lack of oxygen.

The defense and prosecution did not exercise their right to challenge the verdict of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova. On March 12, she was fined 600 thousand rubles in a case of justifying terrorism. The journalist spent almost a year in a pretrial detention center.

The Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha upheld the two-year term assigned to 64-year-old Oleg Tyryshkin. In May 2023, a criminal case was opened against the man under the article on justification of terrorism.

The Investigative Committee for Chechnya has overturned the decision to allow Eset Umarova to familiarize herself with the case of the disappearance of her son Movsar Umarov. He was allegedly kidnapped by security forces.

A month ago, 47-year-old Eldar Karamurza was detained in the Crimean village of Novoalekseevka. He was accused of participating in the activities of the Noman Chelebidzhikhan Crimean Tatar battalion, which was recognized as terrorist in Russia, as well as participating in the economic blockade of Crimea.

A court in Stavropol considered the criminal case of Dagestan residents Zaynalabid Cheriyev, Islam Umarov, Abdulamid Magomedov, Ibragim Shakhmanov, Yusup Rabadanov, Magomed Mamayev, Magomedmukhtar Ismailov, Kurbanismail Magomedov, Akhmedrasul Isabudinov, Yusup Ikhakov, Shamil Gyulmagomedov, Magomedmurad Magomedov and Mukhamat Asadov. They were sentenced to terms of 7 to 10 years.

The Southern District Military Court extended the arrest of Crimean Tatar citizen journalists Rustem Osmanov and Aziz Azizov, as well as activists Memet Lyumanov and Mustafa Abduramanov until July 7. The defense objected to the prosecution's motion. It believes that the assumptions that the defendants could escape are unfounded.