At a hearing in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the judge refused the defense to disclose a secret witness under the pseudonym "Ibragimov." According to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, this person is an agent of the state who wanders from one criminal case to another related to the Crimean Tatars.

On the eve of the trial of the Abzas Media journalists arrested in Azerbaijan, international human rights organizations Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders called on the country's authorities to release them. The human rights activists also appealed to foreign diplomats and the international community with a request to take part in the trial.

Civil journalist Ernes Ametov, sentenced to 11 years, reported that he lost 10 kilograms in IK-12 in the Vologda region. According to his wife, the prison administration did not allow her to give her husband vitamins and medicine during a visit.

The former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, businessman Ruben Vardanyan, is facing a life sentence after being held in Azerbaijani captivity for more than a year. Vardanyan’s lawyers said that Azerbaijani prosecutors have filed about 45 new potential charges against him.

A court in Krasnodar Krai sentenced six participants in the mass riots at Makhachkala airport to lengthy prison terms. Roosevelt Tagirov received eight years in prison, Bashir Magamedaliev, Magamednabi Shaikhslamov, Alibeg Ramazanov, Magamed Gadzhiev - seven years each, Shamil Gadzhiev - 4.5 years.

Law enforcement officers in the Tver and Vladimir regions detained Khamidulla Yapov and Minkail Magamadov. They are accused of attacks on Russian military personnel as part of the detachments of field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab in Chechnya in 1999 and 2000 during the Second Russian-Chechen War. This was reported by the Russian Investigative Committee.

A blind Muslim from Crimea, Alexander Sizikov, was sent to one of the prisons in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. There are two prisons in the region: the first is in Minusinsk, the second is in Yeniseisk. It is not yet known where exactly the political prisoner will serve his sentence.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe examined, at the request of the Memorial Human Rights Center, the execution of ECHR judgments in the group of cases "Khashiyev and Akaeva v. Russia". This group includes cases of the enforced disappearance of 668 people in Chechnya in 1999-2017.

A second criminal case has been opened against Zarema Musayeva, who is serving a sentence in a Chechen penal colony-settlement, under Part 2 of Article 321 - on disorganization of the colony's activities. Allegedly, she hit an FSIN officer and tore off his shoulder strap. The woman does not admit her guilt and denies the investigation's version, her lawyer Alexander Savin said.

The ruling Georgian Dream party has considered in an accelerated manner bills that restrict the freedom of citizens and peaceful assembly.