More than 70 representatives of the independent press have been attacked while covering protests in Georgia, some of them repeatedly. Cases of beatings, the use of water cannons and tear gas, obstruction of work, insults and damage to property, arrests, etc. have been recorded, according to a report by the international organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

The mother of Chechen activists, Zarema Musayeva, was sent from a penal colony to a pretrial detention center until February 1, 2025. A second criminal case was opened against her - for disrupting the colony's activities.

The Magas City Court and the Supreme Court of Ingushetia have ruled that the Federal Penitentiary Service's decision to leave Zurab Didigov in Correctional Colony No. 6 in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, two thousand kilometers from home, is illegal. He will be transferred to another colony, closer to his family.

A native of Chechnya, Azamat Balayev, who served a five-year sentence in an Austrian prison, may be deported to Russia. In this case, human rights activists claim, he faces torture and forced transfer to the "SVO".

At a hearing in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the judge refused the defense to disclose a secret witness under the pseudonym "Ibragimov." According to lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, this person is an agent of the state who wanders from one criminal case to another related to the Crimean Tatars.

On the eve of the trial of the Abzas Media journalists arrested in Azerbaijan, international human rights organizations Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders called on the country's authorities to release them. The human rights activists also appealed to foreign diplomats and the international community with a request to take part in the trial.

Civil journalist Ernes Ametov, sentenced to 11 years, reported that he lost 10 kilograms in IK-12 in the Vologda region. According to his wife, the prison administration did not allow her to give her husband vitamins and medicine during a visit.

The former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, businessman Ruben Vardanyan, is facing a life sentence after being held in Azerbaijani captivity for more than a year. Vardanyan’s lawyers said that Azerbaijani prosecutors have filed about 45 new potential charges against him.

A court in Krasnodar Krai sentenced six participants in the mass riots at Makhachkala airport to lengthy prison terms. Roosevelt Tagirov received eight years in prison, Bashir Magamedaliev, Magamednabi Shaikhslamov, Alibeg Ramazanov, Magamed Gadzhiev - seven years each, Shamil Gadzhiev - 4.5 years.

Law enforcement officers in the Tver and Vladimir regions detained Khamidulla Yapov and Minkail Magamadov. They are accused of attacks on Russian military personnel as part of the detachments of field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab in Chechnya in 1999 and 2000 during the Second Russian-Chechen War. This was reported by the Russian Investigative Committee.