A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced Igbal Abilov, editor of the Talysh National Academy News website, to 18 years in prison on charges of treason, calls against the state, and inciting ethnic hatred. He is accused of collaborating with the Armenian special services and attempting to incite ethnic hatred in Azerbaijan.

Crimean Tatar Ansar Osmanov, sentenced to 20 years, was transferred from the Novocherkassk pretrial detention center in the Rostov region to a prison in Vladimir.

Khasin Kabardaev, Arsen Aichepshev, Murat Kabardaev, Nazir Koshev and Murat Mulazhev will stand trial in the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic. According to investigators, they were part of a cell of the religious organization At-Takfir Wal-Hijra, which is banned in the Russian Federation. The defendants are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist association and participating in it.

A criminal case against the head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Center (EMDS) Anar Mammadli has been referred to the Baku Grave Crimes Court.

Ukrainian citizen Andrey Kolomiets, sentenced by a Crimean court to 10 years, was released from IK-14 in Krasnodar. He is currently in a deportation center. He had previously converted to Islam, since only Muslims supported him during his imprisonment.

A court in Almaty, Kazakhstan, has decided to temporarily arrest Chechen Mansur Movlaev, who was wanted in Russia, for 40 days. His defense has declined to appeal, calling the court's decision consistent with their client's safety.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has approved a new list of foreign agents. It includes Crimean Tatar human rights activist Lutfiye Zudiyeva. She is known for representing the interests of Crimean Tatars in court on politically motivated charges.

In Izhevsk, a native of Kyrgyzstan was sent to a pretrial detention center on charges of calling for terrorism. According to investigators, he called for an attempt on the life of the head of Dagestan on VKontakte.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya granted the prosecutor's motion and denied the defense's request to change Zarema Musayeva's preventive measure to one not related to detention. She will remain in pretrial detention until the end of August.

A court in Stavropol sentenced five more participants in the pogrom at the Makhachkala airport to imprisonment for terms ranging from 8 years to 8 years and one month. Kamil Khalatov, Dzhavad Abdullaev, Nazim Mirzakhanov, Mukhammad Dzhamalov, Ramis Khanaliev were found guilty of mass riots, armed resistance and the use of violence against government officials.