Russia’s Justice Ministry has designated lawyer and Circassian activist Rustam Khuazhev as a “foreign agent”. The ministry also added Zhanna Nemtsova, the daughter of murdered opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, as well as the information resources Team Navalny and Reanimation to the same register.

The prosecutor's office of occupied Crimea has referred the criminal case against four Crimean Tatar women from the Bakhchysarai district to the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. This is the first case in occupied Crimea involving the alleged participation of women in Hizb ut-Tahrir.

On October 1, the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party held a rally in Tbilisi calling for the release of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. The gathering took place at the Rike Park amphitheater, despite a ban issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs due to preparations for the "Tbilisoba" festival. Several dozen people assembled at the site.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Ali Chomaev, the head of the "Adel" children's camp in Karachay-Cherkessia and the "Solnechny Bereg" camp in Dagestan. The restrictions also apply to 16 other individuals and 16 legal entities.

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has awarded the Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Prize to Mzia Amaglobeli—founder of the independent Georgian outlets *Batumelebi* and *Netgazeti*—in recognition of her contribution to promoting and supporting democratic values.

Memet Belyalov, a Crimean Tatar political prisoner and activist with the "Crimean Solidarity" human rights movement, has once again been transferred to a strict-regime barracks at Penal Colony No. 9 in Petrozavodsk. Prior to this, he had spent three months in a cell-type unit (PKT). This was reported by *Suspilne Krym*, citing Belyalov's relatives.

Lana Estemirova—daughter of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, who was murdered in 2009—presented the Russian edition of her book, *Please, Live!*, in Prague. In an interview with DW, she discussed the situation in Chechnya, the plight of its residents, and the possibility of a change in power.

A video from School No. 6 in Sumgait showing several schoolgirls leaving the building was widely circulated on social media on 29 September. The footage shows girls wearing headscarves in accordance with Muslim religious practice, some of them crying. Azerbaijani media reported that the girls were prevented from attending classes because they were wearing headscarves.

Mansur Soltaev, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, has criticized the report by Mariana Katzarova, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Russia. The document focuses on the persecution of critics of the Russian leadership abroad and includes a specific section on the actions taken by Chechen authorities against the diaspora.

More than 150 human rights defenders, journalists, civil society and political figures, as well as civil society organisations, have called on the Kazakh authorities to halt the extradition to Russia of Mansur Movlaev and Yulia Yemelyanova. The joint statement was issued after both lost their appeals against court decisions denying them asylum in Kazakhstan.