The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny extended for six months – until April 20, 2024 – the term of Nikita Zhuravel’s detention in a pre-trial detention center. A 19-year-old student from Volgograd partially admitted his guilt and apologized to the Islamic society for burning the Koran.

Lawyer Alexey Ladin was detained in Simferopol. He participated in trials of Crimean Tatars, who were accused of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, and defended Ukrainian political prisoners and prisoners of war in courts.

Crimean Tatar political prisoner Bilyal Adilov, sentenced to 14 years in prison, was transferred to strict conditions of detention (SUS) in a prison in the city of Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In the Astrakhan Regional Court, the defense continues to seek the reversal of the decision to transfer prisoner from Ingushetia Abdul-Malik Albagachiev to prison.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, published a fragment of his meeting with Nikita Zhuravel, who is under investigation in Grozny for burning the Koran. Zhuravel tells Kadyrov that he wants to convert to Islam.

After 4 o'clock at night, on the western outskirts of the village of Kulary, military personnel shot at a trailer parked near a pond with automatic weapons. Of the seven people in it, one, Tanya (in other sources - Ruslan) Galaevich Abdulkadyrov, born in 1968, was killed, the rest received various types of injuries.

The European Court of Human Rights has referred questions to Russian jurisdiction regarding the 2016 attack on a bus carrying journalists and human rights activists on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya. This was reported by the Team Against Torture.

The Azerbaijani authorities must demand the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from the former Karabakh conflict zone. This was stated by the chairman of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan party, Ali Karimli.

There are no Armenians left in Nagorno-Karabakh due to ethnic cleansing carried out by Baku, but it is still possible to preserve the small number remaining in the region and release those kidnapped and illegally held in Azerbaijani prisons.

In a village in the Simferopol region, security forces detained 20-year-old Crimean Tatar Lutfiye Velieva after a search.
Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev said that the day before, employees of Center “E” carried out an inspection at the Veliyevs’ house.