Ramzan Belyalov, an alleged member of the detachment of field commander Shamil Basayev, appealed his sentence in the Supreme Court.

Since January 2024, Crimean Tatar political prisoner Arsen Abkhairov has been in IK-8 in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) – seven thousand kilometers from home. The Federal Penitentiary Service has twice illegally refused to transfer him closer to home, despite court decisions.

Химкинский городской суд Подмосковья отозвал распоряжение о вступлении в силу приговора адвокату Тимуру Идалову, осужденному по делу об угрозах прокурору. Проект «За права человека» сообщает, что адвоката могут вернуть в СИЗО.

A criminal case about brewing coffee on the Eternal Flame has been submitted to the Supreme Court of Dagestan. Due to a photograph that appeared online, which captured the aforementioned action, Yuliana Aliyeva and Maryam Chunkova are accused of insulting the memory of the participants of the Great Patriotic War.

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its report on the human rights situation noted the intensification of repression and torture against journalists and political activists in Azerbaijan. According to human rights activists, in 2024, the wave of arrests of critics of the Azerbaijani authorities continued.

A protest action was held in Yerevan in front of the UN office and the Armenian government demanding that pressure be put on Azerbaijan to release the Armenian defendants. Today, the trial of former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan and other leaders of the unrecognized republic begins in Baku.

The Khimki Court of the Moscow Region has accepted the appeal of lawyer and native of Chechnya Timur Idalov against his sentence. He was previously illegally held in a pretrial detention center.

A resident of the city of Cherepovets in the Vologda region, Lev Bogatishchev, was found guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced to four years in prison. The charges were based on positive comments about the first president of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev, and field commander Shamil Basayev.

After a two-month stage in IK-1 in Yakutia, the Crimean Tatar Ruslan Mesutov was placed in a punishment cell.

A court in Stavropol has sentenced five more defendants in the criminal case on the anti-Semitic pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. They were sentenced to 7 to 8 years in a general regime penal colony.