The documentary *Imprinted in Memory* (Zapechatlennye v pamyati), directed by Kristina Pashin, has won the international MYTH film award. The awards ceremony took place on September 12 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

The Telavi District Court fined activist Malkhaz Machalikashvili 1,000 lari (approximately $380) for making a public, insulting comment directed at Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the ruling "Georgian Dream" party. Machalikashvili was not present at the hearing.

Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev, who has been held in an Almaty pre-trial detention center for 16 months, has attempted suicide. Vadim Drozdov, the lawyer representing him, reported this to *Novaya Gazeta Europe*.

Yashar Shikhametov, a Crimean Tatar and political prisoner currently serving a sentence in a penal colony in Russia's Kemerovo region, has been assigned Group III disability status. His health is deteriorating rapidly; due to joint and spinal issues, he is barely able to move around on his own. Sources among human rights defenders in temporarily occupied Crimea reported this to *Suspilne Krym*.

Representatives of the Council of Europe have called on Azerbaijani authorities to release human rights defender Anar Mammadli, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Specifically, PACE rapporteur on political prisoners Azadeh Rojhan asserts that his prosecution is political in nature and that fundamental principles of a fair trial were violated during the proceedings.

The Memorial Human Rights Center has designated Romanian national Adrian-David Kercho a political prisoner; he is currently serving a 15-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony for espionage on behalf of Ukraine. The Krasnodar Regional Court handed down the verdict in March 2026, and an appeal in June upheld both the sentence and the criminal classification. Human rights defenders consider the case politically motivated and are calling for his release.

Kazakhstan’s Court of Cassation for Administrative Cases has refused to review the decisions of lower courts that denied refugee status to Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev. His lawyer, Vadim Drozdov, reported this to *Novaya Gazeta Europe*.

In occupied Crimea, the pre-trial investigation into the criminal case against four Crimean Tatar women from the Bakhchysarai district—Esma Nimetulaeva, Fevzie Osmanova, Elviza Alieva, and Nasiba Saidova—has concluded. Since September 5, the women have been reviewing the case files, according to human rights sources speaking to *Suspilne Krym*.

A resident of Dagestan’s Babayurtovsky District has been sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term for publicly calling for extremist activity. The republic’s joint court press service announced the ruling.

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has submitted a written position to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the Georgian Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), calling on the country's authorities to ensure a safe working environment for the civil society. This was reported by the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA).