A court in Stavropol sentenced seven participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport, sentencing them to 14 to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Eduard Asanov, a citizen of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a Crimean Tatar, as a political prisoner. In July 2024, he was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison on charges of participating in an illegal armed group.

After more than six months of illegal detention in Grozny Police Department No. 2, 16-year-olds Said Idigov, Elbrus Saidaev, and Mansur Shabazov were released. They were kidnapped in December 2024 and held without charges, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

France has taken into custody 33-year-old Crimean Tatar Il'nur Shagaev, who left Crimea before Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The detention occurred while boarding a ferry to the UK based on a request from the Russian FSB, which placed Shagaev on the international wanted list on charges of having links to organizations banned in the Russian Federation.

18-year-old Said Murtazaliev from Dagestan was forcibly recruited into the army and sent to the front in Ukraine. As his mother Leyla Nakhshunova told the publication "Ponyano.Media", the young man was detained in the Moscow region in early January on suspicion of fraud. At the police station, he was offered to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense. When he refused, they began to torture him - they put a gas mask on his head and squeezed his chest, causing him to lose consciousness.

After drawing up a new charge, the prosecutor's office returned the criminal case on the death of local resident Vladimir Tsakaev in the police department to the Leninsky District Court of Vladikavkaz for consideration.

Georgian citizen Nikolas Berianidze, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the "DPR", has been recognized as a political prisoner. This was reported by the independent human rights project "Memorial".

A court in Makhachkala sentenced activist and blogger Ramazan Rabadanov to three years and two months of suspended imprisonment. He was found guilty of possessing weapons and ammunition. The activist was also fined 50,000 rubles.

Timur Yalkabov, sentenced to 17 years, was transferred to strict conditions in IK-17 in Murmansk. According to his wife, the reason was allegedly that the prisoner did not work in his previous place of detention - the prison in the city of Dimitrovgrad in the Ulyanovsk region.

The Shali City Court of Chechnya continued to consider the criminal case against Zarema Musayeva. She is accused of disrupting the activities of the colony. According to the investigation, the seriously ill woman allegedly attacked the guard who was escorting her to the hospital, scratched his neck and tore off his shoulder strap.