The military prosecutor's office in Moscow has approved the charges against former lawyer from North Ossetia Elman Pashayev.

During 37 days of hunger strike in pretrial detention center, one of the leaders of the Azerbaijani opposition movements – the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Musavat Party – Tofig Yagublu lost 21 kg.

A court in Moscow allowed Muslim Murdiyev, a 14-year-old native of Chechnya, to receive a school education in a distance online form. He is under house arrest. The reason for initiating a criminal case on hooliganism was a fight in which Murdiyev, according to lawyers, stood up for his friend before the aggressor.

At the hearing of the Baku Military Court on the case of former State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh Ruben Vardanyan, he and his lawyer again protested against the composition of the panel of judges.

Last evening, an unknown person in a mask attacked Georgian civil activist Nutsa Makharadze. When she, her sister and friend entered the elevator of their building in Tbilisi, the attacker sprayed pepper spray in their faces, then doused them with green paint, cursed them and disappeared. Local media reports that Makharadze has a first-degree burn on her face.

Crimean Tatar civilian journalist Remzi Bekirov is sent to the punishment cell in IK-33 in Abakan (Khakassia) for reading namaz. The administration interprets this as a violation of the internal regulations.

More than 80 human rights defenders, activists, and cultural figures from Adygea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and Karachay-Cherkessia have sent an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation. They are asking not to adopt the law "On Repatriation to the Russian Federation", since it requires knowledge of the Russian language for potential repatriates from foreign countries to Russia and infringes on their rights.

Circassian activist and blogger Hasan Matuev has been detained in Istanbul. He faces extradition to Russia, as he is on the federal wanted list. Matuev is included in the list of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring.

The Tbilisi City Court has remanded 11 people detained at the protests in custody: Andro Chichinadze, Onise Tskhadadze, Guram Mirtskhulava, Jano Archaya, Luka Jabua, Ruslan Sivakov, Revaz Kiknadze, Giorgi Terashvili, Valery Tetrashvili, Sergei Kukharchuk and Irakli Kerashvili. The case has entered the merits stage.

Against the backdrop of the abrupt termination of American support for independent media in Europe and Central Asia and the strengthening of Russian propaganda, the international human rights organization Reporters Without Borders (RBG) published its annual press freedom rating. It is based on five indicators: political context, legal basis, economic environment for mass media, socio-cultural context and security.