The Moscow City Court refused to recognize as illegal the decision to initiate a criminal case against a native of Chechnya, Ilyas Yakubov. Previously, the MMA athlete was arrested on charges of justifying terrorism. The reason for the arrest was his publication on social networks.

In Vladikavkaz, a criminal case was opened against a serviceman for calls for terrorism due to a comment on Vkontakte.

A court in Makhachkala arrested two residents of Dagestan in absentia. They were also put on the wanted list on charges of treason.

The total number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has reached 288 people. This is 43 more people than at the end of 2023, the Freedom Union of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan reported.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Chechnya reported that after conducting a procedural check against the employees of the pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Grozny, they were subject to “disciplinary liability.” The reason was the admission to the detention center of the minor Adam Kadyrov, who beat the prisoner Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran.

For almost three weeks, a native of Dagestan, Omar Murtazaliev, has been in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Shadrinsk, where he was transferred from IK-2 in the Kurgan region without explanation. According to the lawyer, this may be due to the interrogation of the defendant as a witness or the initiation of a new criminal case against him.

The administration of the prison in the city of Yelets, Lipetsk region, fined Crimean Tatar political prisoner Vladlen Abdulkadyrov. At the clinic, he was given many diagnoses; he could not tolerate physical activity. The prison administration regarded this as a refusal to work and fined the Crimean Tatar 1 thousand rubles.

Immediately after the transfer of the co-chairman of the Memorial Center, political prisoner Oleg Orlov, to the Moscow pre-trial detention center-5 “Vodnik”, he was offered to sign a contract to participate in a “special military operation”. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

The Baku Court of Appeal considered the defense's complaint about the refusal to transfer opposition figure Gubad Ibadoglu to house arrest due to health reasons. The complaint was rejected at the request of the investigation.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to cancel the punishment in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 30 thousand rubles to Tamerlan Ivanov. Previously, he was found guilty of discrediting the army.