The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" recognized a native of Dagestan, the author of the YouTube channel "Wild paratrooper" Askhabali Alibekov as a political prisoner. In March 2023, the former military man was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for "discrediting" the Russian army.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Crimean resident Artur Agasaryan to 20 years in prison. He was found guilty of treason, preparing for a terrorist attack, and trafficking in explosives.

Arsen Kharatyan, the Armenian editor of the Georgian-Armenian media AliQ Media, was denied entry to Georgia without explanation. However, he has been living there for five years.

A native of Chechnya, Alavdi Batykaev, was sentenced to 16 years in the "Pskov paratroopers case." According to the court, he allegedly participated in an attack on the military of a parachute landing company near the village of Ulus-Kert in 2000. More details in our video report.

The founder and editor-in-chief of the opposition Azerbaijani channel Azel TV, Afgan Sadigov, was arrested in Tbilisi on the basis of a fabricated Interpol wanted list at the request of the Azerbaijani authorities.

Moscow's Tagansky Court fined MMA fighter Magomed Ismailov 20,000 rubles under the article on inciting hatred or hostility towards a certain group of people.

Mobilized Alexey Efanov from North Ossetia received two years and three months in a penal colony. He was convicted for refusing to go to fight in Ukraine, as he needed treatment and a medical examination.

A Crimean Tatar activist Aziz Akhtemov, who was sentenced to 13 years, was transferred from a prison in the Krasnoyarsk Territory to an unknown destination. According to his wife, Adile Akhmetova, she was refused information about where her husband was currently being held.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Alavdi Batykaev from Grozny guilty and sentenced him to 16 years in prison. According to investigators, in 1999 he joined the illegal armed formation of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria under the leadership of Shamil Basayev and Khattab.

The Russian government did not support the version of the bill that allows schools and municipalities to introduce a local ban on religious clothing, including hijabs and niqabs. It is reported that the concepts of "religious clothing" and "clothing with religious attributes" are not defined in the legislation and this "may lead to ambiguous law enforcement practices."