The office of human rights activists from the Committee against Torture was set on fire in Grozny. Previously, human rights defenders were threatened by armed, masked assailants. “Smoke is coming from the office. The fire has not spread, it is coming from the windows. The fire did not spread to the other apartments. There are firefighters and ambulances around the house, the residents of the house were evacuated,” an eyewitness from the scene told Mediazona.

At about 00:25 at night, at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Podolskiye Kursantov Street, the head of the department of local police commissioners for the Chertanovo Yuzhnoye district killed a 68-year-old pedestrian in a Mitsubishi Pajero jeep. The pensioner was crossing the roadway in an unspecified place, TASS reports citing the press service of the capital police. The police captain driving the jeep fled the scene, but was then detained by traffic police officers.