The German authorities granted political asylum to a native of Chechnya, Mokhammad Abdurakhmanov. He is a human rights activist and the brother of opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Mohammad was previously denied refugee status twice. He thanked Germany for the assistance provided.

Lawyers of the “Team Against Torture” filed a statement with the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee and the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow regarding illegal actions of police officers. They insulted Tamerlan Marzoev, a native of North Ossetia living in Moscow, because of his nationality, beat him in front of his pregnant wife and forced him to do squats naked.

The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny for the second time postponed the consideration of the criminal case against 19-year-old student from Volgograd Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran. This is due to the non-appearance of the victims - 13 imams of mosques in Chechnya. The meeting was postponed to November 16.

The Court of Appeal reduced the term of imprisonment from 18 to 17.5 years for Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ernes Seytosmanov.

The lawyer of a native of Chechnya, Mansur Movlaev, filed a statement of violence with the National Center for the Prevention of Torture of Kyrgyzstan. The document states that the prisoner was beaten by security forces in the pre-trial detention center.

The courts of Dagestan arrested eight participants in the pogrom at Makhachkala airport for eight days. All punishments were imposed under the article on “obstructing transport infrastructure” during an uncoordinated rally (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Two more participants were assigned 60 hours of compulsory work due to “health conditions” under the same article.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, gave advice to local security forces on how to deal with the instigators of unrest. “If we have even one person going to unsanctioned riots, detain and imprison him. Or fire three warning shots in the air and after that, if the person does not comply with the law, fire the fourth shot in the forehead. They won't come out anymore. This is my order,” Kadyrov told the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard at a meeting in the government of the republic.

Today it is impossible to imagine Azerbaijan without repressive measures, harassment, violence and intimidation aimed at suppressing freedom of speech against social and political activists. This was reported by human rights activist and co-founder of the Defense Line organization Rufat Safarov.

After a search and interrogation, journalist Idris Yusupov was released and no charges were brought. However, mobile phones, laptops, and flash drives, including those belonging to his family members, were confiscated from him.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced Salikh Osmanov, a 40-year-old resident of the village of Tyrnyauz, to 9 years in a maximum security colony.