In Azerbaijan, the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers on prohibited professions for people with a female gender marker in their documents was canceled. The ban will continue to apply to pregnant women and women with children under one year of age. Discriminatory restrictions persisted in Azerbaijan and other post-Soviet countries due to the influence of the USSR legal system, which enshrined gender segregation in the world of work.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow is choosing a preventive measure for the defendants in the new criminal case against the Vesna movement - ex-members of the youth movement Evgeny Zateev, Valentin Khoroshenin and Yan Ksenzhopolsky, as well as activists Vasily Neustroev, Anna Arkhipova and Pavel Sinelnikov not associated with Vesna. At the exit from the courtroom, journalist, politician and ex-teacher of RANEPA Yulia Galyamina, who came to support the defendant, was detained.

From 80 to 150 miners of the Mariinsky mine, located in the village of Malysheva near Asbest in the Sverdlovsk region, went on strike. They refused to rise to the surface, It's My City reports. Mariinsky mine website Miners have refused to leave the emerald and beryllium mining site amid reports of plans to close the mine. It belongs to Rostec - according to the telegram channel “Not for the Record”, the company denies such plans.

China deprived the 19-year-old Uyghur student Kamil Vait for the "approval of extremism." According to the prosecution, Camille published on the social network WeChat shots from protests against covid restrictions in China. Camille Vait Amnesty International Camille was detained in Atusha on December 12, the day after returning home from the university in Henan province in Central China. Since then, there has been no information from her.

The head of the city military administration of Krivoy Rog, Alexander Vilkul, said that due to the destruction of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station, water reserves in the city are enough for a month and a half-and this is with economical use. According to Vilkul, tonight the water level in the Kakhovsky reservoir fell below the level of the city water intake. This means that the southern reservoir, from which water for a crooked horn occurs, water ceased to flow.

Chechen security forces forcefully send detained people to war. People suspected of having non-heterosexual relationships, drug and alcohol users, as well as those who have spoken negatively about the authorities come under attack. This was reported in the SOS IC report.

Lebanon deported at least 753 Syrian refugees in May 2023, according to a report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). In addition to deportations, Syrian refugees in Lebanon are experiencing harsh conditions in camps and imprisonment. According to the Amnesty International report , they face denial of medical care, torture, and the deliberate overcrowding of overcrowded prisons.

On June 7, activist from Yekaterinburg Alla Chikinda finally received compensation from the informer and homophobe Timur Bulatov for telephone harassment. The Sphere Foundation reports this. Alla Chikinda and Anna Plyusnina The case of Bulatov’s telephone harassment of activists Alla Chikinda and Anna Plyusnina lasted four and a half years and ended in 2021 with a decision in favor of the victims. Only on June 7 did Alla manage to receive her part of the compensation.

In Sri Lanka's largest city, Colombo, students marched demanding the release of activists arrested during the 2022 protests. In response, local security forces began using water cannons and tear gas. Another demand was an increase in monthly stipends. Local Inter-University Student Federation activist Madushan Chandrajit said cuts in health and education budgets were harming students' economic well-being.

In Canada, 414 forest fires are blazing, 239 of which got out of control, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In total, in the first five months of 2023 , 2214 forest fires were flared up in the country. As a result, at least 3.3 million hectares of territory burned down, which exceeds the area of ​​Armenia and Belgium. More than 20 thousand people are evacuated. 2023 may become the worst in terms of forest fires for Canada from the point of view of burnt territories.

Roskomnadzor has blocked all OVD-Info sites: now Russian residents without a VPN are unable to access the news site of the human rights project, as well as a site with legal instructions and analysis of laws. The main website of OVD-Info has been blocked since 2021. As OVD-Info clarified, notifications about the blocking of the ovd.legal and ovd.news resources were sent to the project’s email . “OVD-Info does not know the reasons for the blocking; we don't agree with them.

Over the past 24 hours, three people have been killed and five more injured as a result of shelling by the Russian army. It is also known that three people died from the flood. In the Donetsk region, Russian shelling killed three people, including one child, and injured five more people, including a minor. In total, 14 multi-storey buildings and two private buildings were damaged in the region.