Crimean Tatar activist Aziz Akhtemov, sentenced to 13 years, was transported from a prison in Krasnoyarsk Krai to the maximum security penal colony IK-10 in Altai. The transfer lasted almost two months, during which Akhtemov was held in pre-trial detention centers in Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, and Barnaul. The distance between Crimea and Altai is 4,500 km.

Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Justice added to the list of foreign agents. Its new defendants are Chechen opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, journalist of the independent Russian online publication Mediazona Dmitry Treshchanin, stand-up comedian Denis Chuzhoy, who spoke out against the war, and the online publication about life in the regions Govorit NeMoskva.

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.