The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal against the 11-year sentence for Crimean Tatar activist and cook Yashar Shikhametov. Lawyer Emil Kurbedinov spoke about his grave physical condition.

Yerevan is deliberately spreading misinformation that the CSTO did not protect Armenia, this is not true. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zakharova.

Darwin's theory of evolution should be removed from school textbooks because it contradicts religious education and contributes to the spiritual decay of children. This was stated by Muslim Khuchiev, assistant to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and former head of the Chechen government. He addressed the corresponding proposal to the Minister of Education of Russia Sergei Kravtsov.

A court in Dagestan sided with local resident Rasul Batyrov and excluded him from the preventive registration lists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under the category of "extremist". The man emphasized that he had never been brought to administrative or criminal liability, and that he was put on the preventive register since 2021 to improve statistics and because he is a practicing Muslim.

The European Parliament has called for the criminal case against economist and activist Gubad Ibadoglu and other political prisoners in Azerbaijan to be dropped.

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow registered an administrative case on the activities of a "foreign agent" without reporting himself against a native of Chechnya, director of the human rights organization Human Rights Center Ichkeria ("Center for Human Rights - Ichkeria") Aslan Artsuyev.

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.

A hair of the Prophet Muhammad and other sacred relics are on display in the Juma Mosque in the city of Kizilyurt. The exhibition is open to everyone and will last until September 20 inclusive.

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.