A representative of the ombudsman of Azerbaijan visited the doctoral student of Istanbul University, economist Fazil Gasymov, in the pre-trial detention center. He has been on hunger strike for 55 days. The management of the medical facility was given recommendations regarding the monitoring of the prisoner's condition.

The US State Department called on Georgian authorities to release exiled Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov. On August 3, he was detained in Tbilisi and placed in a deportation center. If extradited to Azerbaijan, the opposition figure faces another prison term.

A court in Dagestan reduced the term of forced labor for a resident of Khasavyurt, Shakhban Abakargadzhiev, from five to three years in the case of military "fakes". In May, the Khasavyurt District Court of Dagestan sentenced the man to five years of forced labor.

From March 2022 to June 2024, 174 administrative cases of “discrediting” the Russian army were recorded in the regions of the North Caucasus. Criminal cases of “repeated discrediting” and “disseminating fakes” were opened against 17 people. The Memorial Human Rights Defense Center has this information.

In IK-1 of the Tambov region, Crimean Tatar human rights activist Server Mustafayev, who was sentenced to 14 years, is losing his sight. He has been in strict conditions of detention since February.

Every fourth resident of Crimea, who was caught publicly apologizing for his pro-Ukrainian position, was subjected to additional humiliation. Human rights activists of the Crimean initiative Irade came to these conclusions.

The Memorial human rights project has recognized 53-year-old Eduard Atayev from Dagestan as a political prisoner. He is a well-known activist in the republic, a former coordinator of the Golos movement and a member of the electoral commission. In addition, Atayev headed the local branch of the PARNAS party and criticized the war in Ukraine.

The Kabardino-Balkarian court has received an administrative case against the leader of the "Free Circassia" association, Ibragim Yaganov. He is accused of violating the law on the activities of "foreign agents".

The Kirovsky District Court of Crimea previously arrested local resident Refat Ismailov for nine days.

Moscow's Basmanny Court extended the detention of journalist and writer Nadezhda Kevorkova until October 6. She is charged under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism).