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When commenting on the demand of Azerbaijani activist Talekh Bagirzade to hold law enforcers accountable for offensive remarks insulting God, lawyers have said it is unlikely to result in a serious punishment for law enforcers.

The Kirov District Court of Irkutsk has found legitimate the refusal to initiate a torture case of Khumaid Khaidaev, a native of Chechnya, who was tortured in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) after a prisoners' riot in a local colony. This court refusal will be appealed against, human rights defenders have stated.

The video that was examined at the trial failed to show the face of the man who threw chairs at the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) fighters; moreover, he did it with his right hand, which contradicts the indictment, Bagaudin Myakiev, an activist, has stated.

Ali Aliev, the convicted leader of the Azeri oppositional "Party of Citizens and Development" (PCD), has gone on a hunger strike in protest against his indictment.

Since March 4, a total of 112 administrative cases have been opened in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) on discrediting the Russian Army. Chechnya is among the three regions where not a single protocol was drawn up under this article; it follows from the data of the "OVD-Info"* human rights project.

In the morning, the police came to search a house of the parents of Ingush journalist Isabella Evloeva, suspected of disseminating fakes about the Russian armed forces. After the search, the journalist could not contact her parents, as they do not answer calls to their mobile phones, Isabella Evloeva says.

The Baku Court on Grave Crimes sentenced religious activist Fagan Mamedov to six years of imprisonment after finding him guilty of drug trafficking. Fagan Mamedov called the criminal case fabricated. His advocate stated that the activist’s guilt had not been proven.

On June 6, Abbas Guseinov and Djabbar Djabbarov, members of the “Muslim Unity” movement, and journalist Polad Aslanov, who are imprisoned in Azerbaijan, have begun a hunger strike in solidarity with Talekh Bagirzade.

Passers-by were actively interested in pickets in support of the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev; they asked the picketers about his fate, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, has informed.

Talekh Bagirzade, the convicted leader of the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM), has gone on a hunger strike, demanding to punish the law enforcers, who, according to supporters of the movement, had blasphemed while torturing believers. Law enforcement bodies reject the allegations of torture and blasphemy.

The Union "For Freedom of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners" has compiled an updated list of 100 activists persecuted by the authorities. President Aliev's decision to pardon 213 prisoners has failed to solve the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders have stated.

Russian Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova supported the adoption of a draft law proposed by the Chechen parliament to ban the mention in the media and the Internet of information about the nationality and religion of people involved in crimes.

During the week of May 30-June 5, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.