A court in Crimea dropped all charges against the imam of the village of Privetnoye, Kirovsky district, Ismail Yurdamov, under the article on illegal missionary work. In January he was fined eight thousand rubles.

The Russian Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision to criminally prosecute eight murdered residents of the Dagestan Khasavyurt. The defense noted that their guilt was refuted by the lack of evidence and the testimony of witnesses.

Crimean Tatar Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, sentenced to 12 years in prison, has not gone out for walks for more than four months due to lack of shoes. Prison staff in Yelets did not provide him with seasonal shoes, and convicts are prohibited from having their own. Crimean Solidarity reports this.

At the station in Kazan, blogger Askhabali Alibekov, known as the “Wild Paratrooper,” was beaten. He said that he came to become an observer in the presidential elections. He was attacked by 15 people, knocked to the ground and beaten on his body and face.

In the Yelets prison in the Lipetsk region, Crimean Tatar Seitveli Seitabdiev, sentenced to 14 years, is not receiving medical care. For more than a month he has not been able to get an appointment with a surgeon or ophthalmologist. He is also bothered by severe itching of the scalp, pain in the back and elbows.

In Kazan, police removed the author of the Wild Paratrooper channel, Askhabali Alibekov, from the train and detained him. The exact reasons for the detention are unknown.

The prosecutor demanded a 3.5 year sentence for student Nikita Zhuravel, accused of insulting the feelings of believers. He is accused of burning the Koran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the rank of Major General of Justice to Vladimir Sharaev. In 2015, he was an investigator in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

About 30 Chechen refugees and oppositionists were placed in repatriation centers in Turkey, from where they could be deported to the Russian Federation. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement about the “exceptionality of such a situation.”

The day before, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation published another list of “foreign agents”. It included a native of Chechnya, director of the human rights organization Human Rights Center Ichkeria Aslan Artsuev.