Crimean Tatar philologist and journalist Seyran Saliev, sentenced to 16 years in prison, was once again transferred to strict conditions of detention in a colony in the Tula region. Since the beginning of the year, he was sent to a punishment cell for 15 days several times due to violation of his dress code.

Four residents of Dagestan, released from pre-trial detention the day before, were again arrested in connection with the riots at the Makhachkala airport. This was announced by the Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission of the Republic Shamil Khadulaev.

Sentenced to 3.5 years on charges of burning the Koran, 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel remained to serve his sentence in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Grozny, where he was kept during the investigation and trial.

A court in Akhtubinsk (Astrakhan region) arrested local resident Beknur Kamalov for 10 days under the article on demonstrating extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). He posted on Vkontakte the song “Jerusalem” by the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Transparency International and more than 10 other human rights organizations published a joint statement on the anniversary of the arrest of the Azerbaijani economist and opposition politician Gubad Ibadoglu. The authors of the text called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release political prisoners.

Four people arrested in a criminal case related to riots at the local airport were released from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Makhachkala. The chairman of the public monitoring commission of Dagestan, Shamil Khadulaev, wrote about this.

The Fifth Court of Cassation changed the territorial jurisdiction for ten participants in the riots that occurred in October 2023 at Makhachkala airport. They will be tried in the Stavropol and Krasnodar territories, the Prosecutor General's Office reported. According to lawyers, the change in jurisdiction is illegal and violates the constitutional rights of citizens.

Georgian intelligence services are investigating the preparation of a terrorist attack against the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, and other high-ranking members of the party. The State Security Service is conducting an investigation under Art. 315 of the Criminal Code (conspiracy or rebellion for the purpose of violent change of the constitutional order) and Art. 323 (terrorist act).

The Nalchik Magistrate's Court imposed fines of 3 thousand rubles on eight citizens who did not stand during the singing of the anthem at school No. 33.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan found Alsa Kurmasheva, a journalist of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty, guilty of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army and sentenced her to 6.5 years in prison.