The current head of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, stated that the decision on whether to pardon the imprisoned ex-president of the country Mikheil Saakashvili or not is her moral responsibility and no one can influence this. Previously, she had strongly rejected the possibility of a pardon.

Members of the organizing committee of forced migrants from Chechnya living in Ingushetia (mainly Ingush nationality) addressed the President of the Russian Federation, the head of government, the chairmen of the State Duma and the Federation Council.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya considered the appeal of the Team Against Torture lawyer against the refusal to release Zarema Musayeva from the colony on parole. The court overturned the lower court's ruling and sent the complaint back for reconsideration.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow decided to arrest in absentia the leader of the Georgian National Legion fighting in Ukraine, Mamuka Mamulashvili. He is charged with “mercenary activity and inciting hatred using the media with the use of violence by a person using his official position.” A representative of the Russian state news agency TASS spoke about this.

The Soviet court of Vladikavkaz fined Timur Makiev 30 thousand rubles under an administrative article about “discrediting the Russian army.” In one Telegram channel, he left comments against the military operation in Ukraine.

In Crimea, police officers searched the home museum of ancient weapons of the chairman of the Sudak regional Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilver Ametov. He believes that he is being persecuted for his social activities and for his status as chairman of the regional Mejlis, which is banned in the Russian Federation.

The 3.5 year sentence for Nikita Zhuravel will be appealed to a higher authority. This was stated by lawyer Yulia Antonova. She considers the decision of the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny incorrect, since the actions of the defendant, found guilty of burning the Koran, cannot be classified as a set of crimes.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow found Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the Memorial human rights project, guilty of “repeated discrediting” of the army under Part 1 of Art. 280.3 CC. He was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in a general regime colony.

A court in Grozny sentenced 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of burning the Koran.

An attempt to enter Georgia and request political asylum for Russian activist and head of the non-governmental organization Frame Maxim Ivantsov was unsuccessful. He linked the actions of the Georgian authorities with the collection of signatures in support of the nomination of Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate in Russia.