On April 13, the Russian government gave a negative response to the amendments proposed by the Chechen parliament to the federal law “On Combating Extremist Activities” concerning collections of hadiths and works of canonical Islamic schools.

On April 13, the Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested lawyer Timur Idalov for two months for allegedly threatening the prosecutor with violence. The arrested person stated that the charges were fabricated by the investigation at the direction of the FSB.

Activist of the Azerbaijan People’s Front party Zamin Salayev is on a hunger strike for 65 days in Baku SIZO. He is in a serious condition.

Crimean Tatar citizen of Ukraine Lia Umerova from December 2022 is kept in isolation in the Russian Federation. First, at the Temporary Detention Centre for Foreign Nationals, three days of administrative detention were ordered after the Centre.

A lawyer from Chechnya, a native of Chechnya, Timur Idalov, was detained by the FSB in the capital. Criminal proceedings were instituted against the man for threatening to use violence against a public official (article 318, paragraph 1, CC). He was allegedly threatened by the prosecutor at the Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow, demanding that the restraining measure be reduced.

Industrial District Court of Vladikavkaz found blogger Alan Hasiev guilty of «discrediting» of the Russian army and imposed a fine of 50 thousand. rubles. The administrative case was initiated by a video of a blogger in Telegram, which, according to the court, distorts and discredits the tasks of using the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the CRS zone.

Hasiyev himself did not admit his guilt. He was justified by the fact that he had served seven years in the FSB of the Russian Federation, and considered all the accusations to be false.

The Crimean Tatar Timur Yalkabov, who had been sentenced to 17 years, was held in the punishment cell of Dimitrovgrad prison for more than two months. The reasons for the confinement are unknown.

The National Association of Lawyers of Russia (NAJR) spoke on behalf of lawyer Aza Aliyeva, who provided information about torture of natives of Dagestan in the Kalmykia colony and violence in the Saratov region. Earlier, UFSIN in Saratov region filed a complaint against Aliyeva to the Regional Chamber of Lawyers and demanded that she be disciplined for revealing torture practices.

Baksan district court of the CBR found the local resident Zukhra Malukhov guilty of «discrediting» of the Russian army. In court, she admitted to leaving a comment on Instagram due to intense emotional anxiety.

The 10-year-old convicted Crimean Tatar Dilyaver Gafarov was placed in the punishment cell of Colony 1 in the Stavropol Territory. The reason for the detention of a political prisoner in the SHIZO is unknown to the family and the lawyer.