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A court in Russia’s Yakutia has begun the trial of the ex-leader of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in the Siberia region

A court in Kazakhstan has rejected an appeal filed by imprisoned activist Erzhan Elshibaev against an additional seven years incarceration handed to him in September for "violating the penitentiary’s internal regulations and for calls to disobey prison guards."

Russia's Federal Security Service said on December 8 that it has arrested two residents of Ukraine’s Russia-annexed Crimea on a high treason charge.

The Las Vegas Raiders have kept their faint playoffs hopes - and perhaps coach Josh McDaniels job - alive with a three-game winning streak.

Eyewitnesses to the death of Omid Moayidi say he was first shot in the back as he ran from Iranian security forces during street protests before being shot at close range in the head. Officials have pressured his family to say that Moayidi was not protesting, but was shot by "rioters" as he drove.

The China Index, a new database launched by Doublethink Labs to track China's global sway, ranks Pakistan as the country in which Beijing's influence is the strongest, with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan also making the top 10.

A date for the trial in absentia of noted retired Belarusian swimmer Alyaksandra Herasimenya and former handball manager Alyaksandr Apeykin has been set for December 19.

The Moscow-based human rights group Support Of Political Prisoners. Memorial has recognized Russian poets Artyom Kamardin, Nikolai Daineko, and Yegor Shtovba as political prisoners.

Iran has apparently disbanded the notorious morality police, members of an Iranian theater group were detained after releasing a protest video, and anti-establishment protesters staged a three-day general strike. 

A well-known Kyrgyz jazz musician who was severely beaten while detained by police in Kazakhstan during deadly anti-government protests in January will seek financial compensation from Astana after an investigation into his treatment by police officers is complete.