Speaking at a meeting of the Tbilisi City Court, ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili said that he “does not want to ask President Salome Zurabishvili for anything,” but still hinted at a request for a pardon.

A court in Bishkek found a native of Chechnya, Mansur Movlaev, guilty of illegally crossing the border and decided to expel him from Kyrgyzstan. The man has repeatedly stated that he faces torture and death in the Russian Federation.

The administration of pre-trial detention center-2 of Simferopol does not issue the Koran in Arabic to 24-year-old political prisoner from Bakhchisarai Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov. This was reported by his defender Emil Kurbedinov.

Five police officers from Dagestan, previously found guilty of using violence against a detainee, kidnapping and torture, were released from custody. This happened after the Supreme Court of Dagestan overturned the verdict and sent the criminal case for a new trial to the Karabudakhkent District Court.

Security forces conducted a raid on parishioners of a mosque in Balashikha near Moscow. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe. Shortly after the traditional Friday prayer, the mosque was surrounded by masked men with guns. One of them said that they were from the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The courts of Dagestan brought 412 people to administrative responsibility after the anti-Semitic pogrom at Makhachkala airport on October 29.

The courts of Dagestan awarded fines of up to 2 thousand rubles to five residents of the republic for posting flags of the terrorist communities “Islamic State” (IS) and “Al-Qaeda” on social networks. In particular, two men posted the IS flag on Odnoklassniki, another on VKontakte, and two others on WhatsApp and Telegram.

In Azerbaijan, on National Revival Day, a group of public figures organized a flash mob demanding the release of the famous economist professor and opposition politician Gubad Ibadoglu. The day before, his arrest was extended for another three months. The lawyer noted that the charges have no legal basis.

This year, instead of serving time in a colony, former RUBOP operative Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, sentenced to 20 years for organizing the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, served in the Storm-Z unit in Ukraine (a unit for prisoners).

The Nalchik garrison court sentenced mobilized Isa Malsagov, accused of leaving a military unit, to five years of probation. Mitigating circumstances were recognized as his receipt of the medal “For Courage” for being wounded at the Northern Military District in Ukraine and participation in the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus.