The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, on May 6 approved in the second and third readings a bill that would ban individuals added to the controversial "foreign agents'" list from taking part in federal, regional, and local elections.
A Bishkek court on May 6 rejected appeal of the leader of the United Kyrgyzstan opposition party, Adakhan Madumarov, against his fraud conviction, saying the appeal had been filed too late.
A court in the central Iranian city of Isfahan has sentenced Mahmud Mehrabi to death for posting messages on social media critical of the Islamic republic.