An activist of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFA) Niyameddin Akhmedov went on a hunger strike in prison. The man was initially placed in solitary confinement for publicizing the torture and suicide of another prisoner. Then, in protest, he went on a hunger strike, the party reported.

A criminal case against a 19-year-old resident of Makhachkala, accused of murdering a mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Magomed Mutayev, has been transferred to court. 19-year-old Nadirkhan Kadirkhanov is charged with murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal acquisition and possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Five defendants in the case of hostage-taking in the Rostov-on-Don pretrial detention center are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Ingushetia. This was reported by the press service of the UFSB for the Rostov Region.

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has published an appeal to the Azerbaijani authorities and the Aliyev regime's international partners in support of the arrested Abzas Media editor-in-chief Sevinj Vagifgizi and five of her colleagues. In the text, RSF condemned the repression and lawlessness in Azerbaijan, against which today's hearings in the case of the aforementioned representatives of the independent press will take place. According to the organization, partner countries should respond to the situation by putting forward a condition for further cooperation to the Azerbaijani authorities - an end to the use of the judicial system to suppress the media.

After arriving at IK-1 in the Kostroma region, Crimean Tatar Edem Smailov was immediately placed in a cell-type room - PKT. Before that, he served his sentence in the same region, but in IK-7.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan partially upheld the appeal against the sentence of former serviceman, native of Dagestan, opposition blogger Askhabali Alibekov, under the pseudonym "Wild Paratrooper". His sentence was reduced from 2 years 4 months to 2 years.

Ramzan Belyalov, an alleged member of the detachment of field commander Shamil Basayev, appealed his sentence in the Supreme Court.

Since January 2024, Crimean Tatar political prisoner Arsen Abkhairov has been in IK-8 in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) – seven thousand kilometers from home. The Federal Penitentiary Service has twice illegally refused to transfer him closer to home, despite court decisions.

Химкинский городской суд Подмосковья отозвал распоряжение о вступлении в силу приговора адвокату Тимуру Идалову, осужденному по делу об угрозах прокурору. Проект «За права человека» сообщает, что адвоката могут вернуть в СИЗО.