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In London, a court arrested Magomed-Khusein Dovtaev, a native of Chechnya, finding him guilty of attempting to collect information for a subsequent attack on employees of the “Iran International” opposition TV Channel. The native of Chechnya states that he had been “put under fire.”

In Dagestan, a court sentenced Stavropol residents Arifulla Avezov and Akhmet Terekbaev to 14 years of imprisonment, recognizing them as participants in an armed attack of the militant groupings led by Basaev and Khattab on the republic in 1999.

Investigators instituted a criminal case on falsification of a police protocol against district police inspector Yevgeny Samonov, accused of beating Kuban resident Fyodor Valko and forgery.

Leaving a military unit without permission by a mobilized man is regarded as a crime, and there is a tendency towards tougher punishment. When commenting on the sentence of mobilized Adam Ivanov, convicted by a military court in Nalchik for leaving his military unit without permission, human rights defenders have noted that courts more often sentence deserters to five or more years of imprisonment.

Advocate Alexander Nemov, who was beaten in Chechnya, considered it unsafe for him to go there to testify in his case, reported Henry Reznik, the head of the lawyer’s commission. According to him, colleagues of Alexander Nemov have no illusions that the crime will be solved soon.

In Sochi, a court sentenced mobilized Maxim Sukhobrus to seven years of imprisonment, finding him guilty of leaving without permission a military unit in the special military operation zone and desertion.

At a court session in Grozny, the last three of the 13 imams recognized as the suffered party in the case of the burning of the Koran by Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, were interrogated. One of the Imams has stated that Zhuravel's act caused him moral harm.

The prosecution of Vasily Melnikov, a resident of the Kotelnikovsky District, on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army is unlawful and politically motivated. This was stated by the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", demanding to release the arrested man.

The prosecution of Shakhban Abakargadjiev, a Khasavyurt resident, under the article on fakes about the Russian Army is unlawful and politically motivated. This was stated by the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", which has demanded to release the convict and stop the criminal case against him.

A court in the city of Adler has sentenced Marina Melikhova to 1.5 years in penal colony, treating the videos she had published in social networks as discrediting Russian militaries. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"* with reference to Maria Spasibukhova, an advocate.

At a court hearing in a case against Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender from Volgograd, prosecution witnesses recanted their testimonies given during the preliminary investigation. The judge did not grant the defendant’s request to question a linguist specialist who conducted an examination on the investigator’s instructions.

The sharp change in the position of the Prosecutor's Office (PO) in the appeal submission and the demand to sentence Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, to a real prison term for discrediting the Russian Army may be due to the dissatisfaction of the higher authority with the prosecution's actions at the trial.

Ramzan Kadyrov has justified his son's beating of Nikita Zhuravel, accused for burning the Koran down, and said that it would have been good if Adam "had killed him." Everyone who has awarded Adam Kadyrov after beating the arrested person is rooting for their religion, the head of Chechnya has noted.

A commutation of punishment for Nikita Zhuravel after his admission of guilt is possible only if a court in Grozny believes in his sincerity, advocate and human rights defender Valentin Bogdan points out.