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The persecution of the eight leaders of the Magas protest, accused of extremism after peaceful rallies, is incompatible with Russia's international human rights obligations and is contrary to the Russian Constitution, human rights defenders have stated. They have urged Russian authorities to release the activists.

A case on terrorism is under investigation in Karachay-Cherkessia after a special operation in which two suspected militants were killed. Searches and detentions were carried out within the investigation into the case, the FSB Department for Karachay-Cherkessia reported.

The statement of the European Union (EU) intelligence service about the existing links of the attempts on lives of Kadyrov's critics with the Russian president looks credible, Ruslan Kutaev has noted. In their turn, Sergey Goncharov and Alexei Malashenko believe that Vladimir Putin is not responsible for the assassination attempts on Chechen bloggers.

Two secret witnesses have stated in court that they had visited a mosque in Makhachkala and listened to the sermons of Israil Akhmednabiev (Abu Umar Sasitlinsky), among whose acquaintances there was a man named Abdulmumin, who called in his articles to raise money for the preacher. The witnesses failed confirm the involvement of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, in financing of terrorism, the advocate has stated.

A two-year conditional imprisonment awarded to a resident of Ingushetia for killing his sister, who has appeared in an operative video about blackmailers' detention, resulted from a wrong qualification of the crime, human rights defenders assert. Facebook users have linked the verdict with indulgence in traditional values.

A case against three residents of Chechnya has been sent to court. They are accused in a case on the terror act in the village of Znamenskoye, as a result of which 15 people were killed in July 2005.

The health condition of Salekh Rustamov, an activist, who is on a hunger strike demanding his release from jail in Azerbaijan, is deteriorating. The human rights activists who visited him tried to persuade him to stop his hunger strike, but he is adamant, said his advocate.

Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian President, has stated that citizens of Russia, including Chechens, were among organizers of the delivery of migrants from the Middle East to the border of Belarus with European countries.

The Russian President and Chechen authorities are responsible for the assassination attempts on the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, committed in Sweden, and on other critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, says the report of the Intelligence and Situation Centre of the European Union (EU).

A case against a commander of a military detachment and his acquaintance, accused of transferring secret information to Azerbaijan, has been prepared for submission to court, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia reports.

Mikhail Kalandiya, who was sentenced to 11 years for killing a teenager in Tbilisi, should be released, and the accused Giorgi Menabde should not be sentenced, but all the high-ranking officials who interfere with justice should be punished. This was stated by Zaza Saralidze, the father of the killed teenager.

The Court of Appeal has left Agvan Ovsepyan, an Armenia's former Public Prosecutor General, under arrest by rejecting the defence's appeal.

The Military Court of Appeal has upheld the verdict to Aslan Daudov, a resident of Chechnya, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in hostage-taking, terrorism and premeditated murder during the 1995 attack by Shamil Basaev's detachment on Budyonnovsk.

At the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a Dagestani journalist, half of the prosecution witnesses have been questioned, but none of them has confirmed his guilt, said Arsen Shabanov, an advocate. The criminal case has been sent to the court also without proofs, Mairbek Agaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, said at the press conference timed to 900 days of Gadjiev's arrest.