A blogger from Russia's North Caucasus charged with terrorism which she rejects as an attempt to stop her investigative reporting has fled house arrest and is currently trapped on the Russian-Georgian border as the authorities in Tbilisi debate what to do.
A court in Moscow has replaced the 18-month parole-like sentence handed to Kira Yarmysh, the press secretary of jailed anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny, to actual prison time, saying she violated the terms of her punishment when she fled the country.
Dozens of civil rights activists and opposition politicians have gathered in front of a detention center in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, to mark the 34th birthday of Zhanbolat Mamai, the jailed leader of the unregistered Democratic Party.