As the second anniversary of the arrest of human rights activist Anar Mammadli approaches, Azadeh Rojan, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) General Rapporteur on political prisoners, called on Azerbaijan to release him. Rojan stated that the numerous charges, according to PACE, are retaliatory measures for Mammadli's civic activism, independent election monitoring, and cooperation with international organizations.

Nearly three dozen Armenian human rights and civil society organizations have sent an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa calling for the release of Armenian prisoners held in Baku. The letter was published on the eve of the 8th European Political Community Summit and the Armenia-European Union meeting, scheduled to take place in Armenia.

Elman Abdullaev, a veteran of the Ukrainian conflict and a native of North Ossetia, failed to obtain a review of his sentence in a fraud case. Following a ruling by a court in Vladikavkaz, the Southern District Military Court upheld his two-year prison sentence on charges of bribery.

The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Ali Karimli expressed strong protest on the occasion of the 61st birthday of the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), which the politician is celebrating in the pretrial detention facility of the State Security Service. The human rights activists accused the authorities of exerting pressure on Karimli for years, including the revocation of his passport and periodic arrests.

The Chechen opposition movement NIYSO announced the arrest and subsequent deployment to Ukraine of three young men from the village of Tangi-chu in the Urus-Martan district of the Chechen Republic. Fellow villagers reportedly asked for prayers for them.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow acquitted Pavel Gubarev, the former "people's governor" of the Donetsk region, of "discrediting the army." The decision was based on the lack of evidence of a violation.

Yulia Volkova, a professor at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, found herself at the center of a scandal over offensive remarks directed at an Azerbaijani child. After photos of her former student Rashad Agayev's family were published, she called his daughter "ugly" and made derogatory remarks about the appearance of children in Azerbaijani families.

According to the Chechen opposition movement NIYSO, a new wave of mass detentions and raids is underway in the republic. Reports of this are coming in from various districts of Chechnya.

Citizen journalist and activist Rustem Sheykhaliyev from Simferopol is experiencing serious health problems in Penal Colony No. 3 in the Amur Region, located 9,000 km from his home. According to his wife, Surie, he needs dental treatment and treatment for varicose veins. He takes medication to relieve leg pain, but also complains of hypertension and headaches.

Zelimkhan Murtazov, a native of Chechnya who spent nearly four months in the transit zone of Astana airport, has left Kazakhstan and flown to Armenia. This was reported by the publication "Vot Tak," citing his brother, Turpal.