Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Azerbaijan to ensure that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has regular access to Armenian detainees. The call followed an appeal by Ruben Vardanyan, the former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh. HRW stressed that it had not independently verified the information he provided.

Chechnya’s prosecutor’s office says it has found no evidence that the parents and brother of Mansur Movlaev, who fled the republic, were abducted. The Investigative Committee registered a report about the disappearance of three family members and conducted a preliminary inquiry, but decided not to open a criminal case. The prosecutor’s office has ruled that the decision was lawful.

The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg has remanded Nurdi Shamaev, a lawyer and native of Chechnya, in custody pending trial on charges of publicly justifying terrorism. He will remain in a pre-trial detention center until November 4.

Lenur Khalilov, a 58-year-old Crimean Tatar sentenced by a Russian court to 18 years in prison, is in critical condition at the Arkhangelsk Region Federal Penitentiary Service hospital. He suffers from metastatic liver cancer, Hepatitis C, hypertension, and other ailments. This information was reported by the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the Memorial Human Rights Center.

In a new report titled "Nowhere Safe: Exporting the Rule of Fear Beyond Borders — Transnational Repression by the Russian Federation," UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Russia Mariana Katzarova examines the persecution of Chechens outside the country against the backdrop of a sharp rise in cases of transnational repression by Russian authorities.

A preliminary forensic report on the death of 14-year-old Maryam indicates that she likely took her own life. Norwegian police announced this finding after receiving the autopsy results.

The Social Justice Center (SJC) has submitted another complaint to the European Court of Human Rights concerning the case of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadygov. This time, the complaint addresses his administrative prosecution in Georgia, his expulsion from the country, and a three-year entry ban following a Facebook post.

Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya currently held in Kazakhstan pending extradition, has recounted a conversation with a representative of the Penal System Committee following two suicide attempts. According to Movlaev, the prosecutor stated that the Russian side would succeed in having him returned regardless, while also mentioning the possibility of him becoming a "martyr."

The Shali City Court in Chechnya has again rejected an application for Zarema Musayeva, who is seriously ill, to be released on parole. The hearing began the previous day and continued today in an off-site session held at the penal colony where she is serving her sentence.

On September 16, former Artsakh State Minister Ruben Vardanyan appealed to Azerbaijan’s Ombudsman, Sabina Aliyeva, requesting an inspection of the detention conditions for Armenian prisoners at the Umbaki penitentiary complex. An audio recording of the appeal was published on his official social media pages.