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The Southern District Military Court has sentenced four Crimean Tatar activists to long prison terms within the case of the "Hizb ut-Tahrir-al-Islami"**.

A court in the Astrakhan Region has fined Evgeny Katyshevtsev, a local resident, finding discrediting of the Russian Army in his posts in his social network page.

A court sentenced Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, to 8.5 years of imprisonment for setting fire to a rug at the entrance to the FSB building in Krasnodar and a banner with a “Z” sign.

The court has satisfied the lawsuit lodged by the activists who demanded from Makhachkala authorities to make sidewalk ramps wheelchair-friendly, human rights defenders have reported.

The Department for Chechnya of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) considered the return of Idris Arsamikov home from a Moscow airport to be voluntary and refused to institute a criminal case on his kidnapping, the “SK SOS Crisis Group”* reported.

A court in Khabarovsk has banned Aisha Mutaeva, the wife and public defender of the Chechen-born Apti Visaev, who is accused of plotting a terror act, from attending the sessions.

The case of organizing a terrorist cell, for which four residents of Dagestan were convicted, was fabricated, the advocate has stated, adding that at least two of the convicts had been subjected to pressure and torture.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has replaced imprisonment for a fine of 100,000 roubles imposed on Ratmir Zhilokov, an advocate convicted of assaulting a law enforcer; the mitigation is due to the fact that the criminal punishment had been applied with no due reason, Boris Zolotukhin, Ratmir's advocate, has stated.

When commenting on a report about a drone attack on Moscow, Ramzan Kadyrov called on to announce martial law in Russia.

Three residents of Krasnodar, who spoke with journalist Alipat Sultanbegova, were searched, and the police seized their PCs and mobile phones.

A female resident of Kaspiysk has posted inaccurate information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces in a social network. The case against her has been sent to court.

On May 29, the traditional solo pickets evoked an active response from Makhachkala residents and guests of the city, Idris Yusupov, a journalist, has stated.

Maxim Sleptsov, a resident of the city of Stavropol, has been detained for posting an announcement about a rally in support of Alexei Navalny* in the "VKontakte" social network.

In Sochi, a court fined Ukrainian citizen Svetlana Matukhnova 30,000 roubles, recognizing her post on the social media in support of her country to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

Sergey Busygin was forced to work for free at a brick factory near Kaspiysk for several years, the “Alternativa” movement against slavery reports.

Mark Eroshenko, a resident of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, called the Russia's leadership and the "world government" "satanic," accusing the military draft commission of using "satanic rites."

The Volgograd Garrison Military Court has sentenced Vyacheslav Pikalov, a contract military serviceman, to two years in colony, finding him guilty of disobeying an order to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

Sergey Stryapukhin, an eco-activist and a resident of the city of Novorossiysk, who is fighting against filling in the gorge, said he had received threats from an unknown person.

Chechen policemen would not tell advocates about the whereabouts of Yasin Khalidov, who was detained while trying to leave for Kazakhstan. Alexander Nemov, an advocate, has filed complaints about his client's disappearance after Khalidov's detention.

The trial of Nikita Zhuravel, a figurants in the case of burning down the Koran, should be held at the crime scene, that is in Volgograd, and his transfer to Chechnya gives rise to fear for his life, Instagram* users have indicated.