The Rechytsa district court in Belarus's southeastern region of Homel sentenced activist Palina Sharenda-Panasyuk, who finished serving a prison term in early August but was not released, to one year in prison on a charge of "blatantly violating her penitentiary's internal regulations."
Noted Kazakh journalist Amangeldy Batyrbekov was sentenced to 20 days in jail on October 9 in the southern town of Saryaghash for publishing "false information" about a manager of a local prosecutor’s office. Batyrbekov rejected the sentence and told RFE/RL, he will appeal it.
The trial of 19-year-old Nikita Zhuravel, who publicly burned a copy of the Koran in the Russian city of Volgograd, was moved to October 13 after he was not brought to the courtroom for unspecified reasons in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya on October 9.