In Brussels, more than ten people held a protest against the deportation of 41-year-old native of Ingushetia Ruslan Meyriev. He has been in custody in the country since 2024, and Russia is demanding his extradition.

The Supreme Court of Crimea overturned the decisions of the Krasnogvardeisky District Court and the Federal Penitentiary Service, which refused to transfer the Crimean Tatar political prisoner Riza Izetov to a colony closer to home. He is being held in IK-1 in Yakutia, which is 9,000 kilometers from where his relatives live.

Mansur Movlaev, who is being held in a pretrial detention center in Kazakhstan and was previously put on the wanted list in Russia, fears an assassination attempt by another prisoner. According to his lawyer, a murder suspect, an ethnic Ingush, was placed in his cell.

More than 150 prisoners - natives of Chechnya - were transferred to Stavropol Krai and the Chechen Republic this year from colonies in other regions of Russia, including the most remote ones. According to the results of 2022-2023, there were 112 such convicts. This was reported by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic Mansur Soltayev.

Numerous complaints and appeals from human rights defenders, activists and cultural figures from Adygea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia have yielded their first results. The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Nationalities sent recommendations to the Russian government to revise the federal bill on the repatriation of Circassians and other peoples of the North Caucasus to Russia. The law was previously criticized for its discriminatory nature due to the mandatory requirement to speak Russian.

Previously convicted native of Nazran Khadzhibikar Barkinkhoev was captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and told how he was forcibly recruited to participate in the "SVO". According to him, he was tortured.

From February to June, the number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan increased from 357 to 375. The Union for Freedom of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan divided their total number into 12 groups.

Lana Estemirova, the daughter of murdered Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, has announced the publication of a book about her, "Please Live." The girl was only 15 years old when her mother was kidnapped and killed.

A court in Nalchik fined local resident Timur Balkarov 30 thousand rubles. He was found guilty under an administrative article on discrediting the Russian army.

Приговоренного к пяти годам заключения бывшего главу села Яркое Поле, крымского татарина Османа Кадырова признали политзаключенным. Об этом сообщил независимый правозащитный проект «Поддержка политзеков. Мемориал».