On the resident of Dagestan from the village of Tidib of the Shamil district Shamil M. a criminal case was initiated because of the publication of a video of the Ukrainian "Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Crimea".

The Security Service of Ukraine reported the detention in Odessa of a man who transmitted information to the Russian side about the deployment of Ukrainian units and coordinated raids on the city.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don granted the prosecutor’s request to extend the arrest to activists from Crimea Rustem Tairovu, Zavor Abdullayev, Jebbar Bekirov and Rustem Murasov. Political prisoners of the Crimean Tatars will remain in detention until 23 July.

On April 13, the Russian government gave a negative response to the amendments proposed by the Chechen parliament to the federal law “On Combating Extremist Activities” concerning collections of hadiths and works of canonical Islamic schools.

On April 13, the Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested lawyer Timur Idalov for two months for allegedly threatening the prosecutor with violence. The arrested person stated that the charges were fabricated by the investigation at the direction of the FSB.

Activist of the Azerbaijan People’s Front party Zamin Salayev is on a hunger strike for 65 days in Baku SIZO. He is in a serious condition.

Crimean Tatar citizen of Ukraine Lia Umerova from December 2022 is kept in isolation in the Russian Federation. First, at the Temporary Detention Centre for Foreign Nationals, three days of administrative detention were ordered after the Centre.

In the first quarter of 2023, more than 1.1 million foreign citizens entered Georgia. This is twice more than in the same period last year.

A lawyer from Chechnya, a native of Chechnya, Timur Idalov, was detained by the FSB in the capital. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the man for threatening to use violence against a public official (article 318, paragraph 1, CC). He was allegedly threatened by the prosecutor at the Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow, demanding that the restraining measure be reduced.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky received from the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile the Order «Honor of the Nation» and the Order of Jokhar Dudayev. This is reported on the official portal of the Head of the Ukrainian state.