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Igor Nagavkin, an arrested Volgograd human rights defender, is under the control of a medical officer at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). This was reported by the Department for the Volgograd Region of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN). The Human Rights Council of Volgograd has acknowledged Igor Nagavkin as its member and prepares actions in its defence.

Detainees were members of a grouping under the control of militants from of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia. This was reported by the FSB Department for Karachay-Cherkessia.

At the trial, Pavel Karaulov has reported that the Russian FSB agents, who accompanied him with his daughter, said that investigators had been refused in opening of a criminal case against Varvara Karaulova. According to Pavel Karaulov, in Turkey, he was also assured that "no criminal case" was instituted against Varvara Karaulova.

At the trial, the farther of Varvara Karaulova has claimed that after her return from Turkey, his daughter was under the FSB control. According to the farther, Varvara Karaulova resumed the correspondence with recruiters at the initiative of investigators.

At the trial in the case of "Rostov Amazons", defenders of Inessa Tarverdieva filed a motion for an additional review of her testimony. The court has dismissed the motion.

In Sukhumi, the court has sentenced Sergey Sigov, accused of inflicting harm to an Abkhazian mobile network provider, to four years of imprisonment in a penal settlement-colony. Sentencing of Vladimir Trifonov, who faces the same charge, is postponed.

Today, the Volgograd Regional Court has upheld the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court on the arrest of activist Igor Nagavkin, but reduced it until November 16. Igor Nagavkin declared a hunger strike.

Field investigators have found out that a 33-year-old resident of Nazran is involved in the combat actions on the side of the Syrian militants. At present, he faces up to 15 years of imprisonment at home, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia.

Opposition activist Darya Polyudova, sentenced on the charge of extremism and serving her sentence in a penal settlement-colony in Novorossiysk, has received a response from the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia to her appeal against the verdict.

At the consideration of their appeal complaint by the Supreme Court of Russia, the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, convicted on charges of involvement in the first Chechen war on the militants' side, will be defended by three advocates.

The court ignores the testimonies, which refute the investigators' version with regard to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, believes Oleg Orlov, the head of the programme "Hotspots" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

At the trial in Rostov-on-Don of the case of an attempt to create Caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) told about the circumstances, under which an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in the apartment of one of the defendants.

In Azerbaijan, a court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who demanded from the Baku City Prosecutor's Office to pay compensation for her unreasonable arrest. The defence plans to challenge the court's decision.