A court in Makhachkala arrested activist and sports commentator Ramazan Rabadanov for two months, until January 7. He was accused of illegal arms and ammunition trafficking.

После нападения на росгвардейцев в Чечне местные силовики вернулись к практике «зачисток», сообщают правозащитники «Мемориала». Десятки людей были задержаны в ходе подворовых обходов в населенных пунктах, находящихся по соседству с селом Петропавловское. Подробнее – в нашем видеосюжете. 

The international journalistic organization Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the detention of Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov in a punishment cell and called for his release.

Rustem Kyamilev, a lawyer for the Crimean Tatar legal movement "Crimean Solidarity", was fined 50 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the Russian army. He was charged with reposting a publication by politician Grigory Yavlinsky about the events in Syria and Ukraine, which was made back in 2017.

Security forces searched the house of lawyers, the spouses of Lila Gemedzha and Rustem Kyamilev. They are engaged in providing legal support to the Crimean Tatars.

Public figure and sports commentator Ramazan Rabadanov was detained in Makhachkala.

Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov, who was sentenced to 13 years, was placed in solitary confinement in a prison colony.

Chechen security forces have returned to the practice of "sweeps": they are detaining local residents. People are offered a choice: either they will go to the "SVO", or a criminal case will be opened against them.

Polad Aslanov, a journalist from Azerbaijan who was sentenced to 13 years, has gone on hunger strike again. He demanded the release of himself and other political prisoners on the eve of the international climate conference in Baku.

The Nalchik Garrison Military Court sentenced a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, mobilized Asker Nebezhev, to three years and six months in prison. The participant in the hostilities in Ukraine was found guilty of dodging military service twice.