Ahead of the opening of the 29th UN Climate Change Conference in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the international community to put pressure on Azerbaijan to release imprisoned journalists and put an end to gross violations of their rights.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of six years in prison for 32-year-old Almira Ayupova. The native of Chechnya was found guilty of participating in the international terrorist organization "Islamic State" in Syria. Both prosecution witnesses did not actually confirm the woman's guilt.

A book called "Hidden History of the Tatars" was found in the library of School No. 4 in the village of Verkhneyarkeevo in Bashkortostan. It was previously recognized as extremist.

Dagestani historian and Caucasus specialist Khadzhi Murad Donogo reported that he was first allowed, and then secretly banned from participating in the interregional scientific and practical conference "National-state formations in Russia: history and modernity", dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Ingushetia.

There is not a single piece of evidence in the criminal case against journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, except for the examination. This was stated by the defense.

A rally in support of journalist Afgan Sadigov was held near the Azerbaijani embassy in Tbilisi. He has been under arrest in Georgia since August and faces extradition to his homeland. Participants held posters reading “Ilham Aliyev is a dictator.”

The Garrison Military Court in Nalchik sentenced contract soldier Bagaudin Nalgiev to eight years in prison. He was found guilty of unauthorized abandonment of his unit and violation of statutory relationships.

Another criminal case has been opened against Zarema Musayeva. She is suspected of disrupting the activities of a penal colony in Argun, Chechnya. The woman faces up to five years in prison under the article, said Alexander Savin, a lawyer for the Team Against Torture.

Journalist Polad Aslanov, serving a sentence in an Azerbaijani penal colony, has ended his hunger strike. The reason is a sharp deterioration in his health. The prisoner declared a hunger strike, demanding the release of all political prisoners from prisons.

Crimean Tatar activist Aziz Akhtemov, sentenced to 13 years, was transported from a prison in Krasnoyarsk Krai to the maximum security penal colony IK-10 in Altai. The transfer lasted almost two months, during which Akhtemov was held in pre-trial detention centers in Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, and Barnaul. The distance between Crimea and Altai is 4,500 km.