Azerbaijan has extended the solitary confinement of convicted political scientist Bahruz Samedov.

Azerbaijan has extended the solitary confinement of convicted political scientist Bahruz Samedov.

German authorities deported 48 people to Georgia, including the brother and other relatives of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen field commander and Georgian native killed in 2019.

Russia has added Ruslan Suleymanov, an Azerbaijani orientalist and employee of the Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) and the CBC-Azerbaijan television channel, to its list of foreign agents.

Political prisoner Darya Polyudova, serving her sentence in Correctional Colony No. 8 in Kostroma, has declared a hunger strike. She is drinking only water. This decision is due to the pressure she is facing in the prison colony.

A blind Muslim, Alexander Sizikov, has been detained again in Crimea. A nighttime search of his home, conducted by approximately 20 security officials, resulted in the seizure of his equipment.

Opposition Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov was detained under administrative law in the Georgian capital. This news was shared on social media by Tamta Mikeladze, a lawyer with the Center for Social Justice.

Mzia Amaglobeli, founder of the publications Batumelebi and Netgazeti, who is serving time in Georgia, has been awarded the European Union's highest human rights award, the Sakharov Prize. She also received the same honor from Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut. The €50,000 prize will be presented in absentia to the laureates in Strasbourg on December 16.

In Belgorod, Z volunteer Irina I. was fined 30,000 rubles for "discrediting the Russian Armed Forces" following a comment on the Telegram channel of Z military correspondent Romanov. Her comments concerned the redeployment of the Russian army unit "Akhmat" from Chechnya to the Belgorod region.

The Tbilisi City Court sentenced Keta Tsitskishvili, a journalist for the opposition television channel Formula TV, to five days of administrative arrest. She is accused of blocking a road during a protest on Rustaveli Avenue.