The Nalchik garrison court sentenced contract soldier Makhti Sozaev to seven years in prison. He was found guilty of leaving a military unit in the Ukrainian Donbass without permission.

Activist of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan Elnur Hasanov has been on a hunger strike for six days in the Baku pre-trial detention center to protest against the seizure of recordings that he prepared for speaking in court.

Political prisoner, co-chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov, after being transported from Moscow, was placed in a special unit of pre-trial detention center-2 in Syzran. There is a double camera there and there is constant video surveillance. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center.

Crimean Tatar citizen journalist Ruslan Suleymanov, sentenced to 14 years in prison, was taken to Verkhneuralsk prison in the Chelyabinsk region. According to him, the journey from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Voronezh took five days by train.

Recently, a video of two schoolchildren beating a classmate went viral on social networks. One of them shouts slogans “Russia is for Russians.” The injured student was a native of Dagestan.

The Kiev District Court in Simferopol extended until July 22 the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for Crimean activists Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov, Remzi Nimetulaev, Seydamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov and Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov. The investigation argued that it was impossible to mitigate the preventive measure under the terrorist article under which the Crimean Tatars are being persecuted.

The former head of Nagorno-Karabakh, ex-citizen of the Russian Federation, billionaire Ruben Vardanyan went on a hunger strike in a Baku prison. He demanded his release, as well as the release of all Armenian political prisoners.

Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin received the conclusion of a medical commission regarding the health of Zarema Musaeva. In the protocol, her diagnosis was changed - instead of type 2 diabetes with multiple complications diagnosed last year, diabetes without complications was indicated. It is not included in the list of diseases that allow convicts to be released for health reasons.

The head of the Meclis.info website, Imran Aliyev, was detained at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku. He intended to fly to Turkey for safety reasons.

In Urus-Martan, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB shot at a native of Chechnya and British citizen Magomed Abubakarov. He is seriously injured and hospitalized. The man was accused of using violence against a government official and illegal possession of weapons, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.