A court in Crimea sentenced Crimean Tatar Lera Dzhemilova to 15 years in prison on treason charges.

The Chechen opposition movement NIYSO reported the kidnapping of 26-year-old Mansur Rasuyev in Chechnya. According to the organization, Rasuyev, a medical student from Moscow, was detained by security forces. The reasons for the detention and the whereabouts of the young man are unknown.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow received a petition to extend the arrest of French political scientist Laurent Vinatier. Last year, he was sentenced to three years in prison in a criminal case on failure to submit documents for inclusion in the register of foreign agents. Now the French citizen, who was researching the North Caucasus, including Chechnya, is accused of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Lenur Khalilov, convicted in the case of the "Alushta group" of the Islamic party "Hizb ut-Tahrir" and former chairman of the Muslim community "Alushta", was released from serving his sentence due to his serious health condition.

Zarema Musayeva decided to appeal the sentence in the new criminal case after reading the reasoning of the decision of the Shali City Court of Chechnya. On August 6, she was sentenced to 3 years and 11 months in a penal colony on charges of disrupting the activities of a correctional institution.

A new criminal case has been opened against a native of Chechnya, Said-Akhmed Visangiriyev, who previously reported torture in penal colony No. 3 in the Vladimir region. He is charged with assault.

The health condition of Crimean Tatar activist Akim Bekirov, sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, raises serious concerns.

The Ingush Telegram channel "Wanted Ingushetia", associated with security forces, published a video with Imam Nazir Dzeitov, accused of illegal possession of weapons. In the video, Dzeitov claims that he was in contact with Ansar Garkkho, the head of the "Ingush Independence Committee".

In various regions of Russia, numerous cases of violation of the religious rights of Muslims serving sentences in correctional institutions have been recorded. Human rights activists note that restrictions are often accompanied by humiliation of human dignity, and complaints from prisoners do not lead to the restoration of their rights.

France extradited Ruslan Botashev, a native of Karachay-Cherkessia, to Russia, accused of terrorist activity. According to Russian investigators, in 2014, the man was trained at the Syrian Muaskar-Sabri militant training camp, and then joined the ranks of the Islamic State organization.