The lawyer Pyotr Zaikin has reported that on July 7, the spurious Urus-Martan City Court in the Russian occupied Chechen territory sentenced Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, to four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony on a charge of illegal possession of drugs that human rights activists say was blatantly fabricated. The court also banned Kutaev for one more year to attend public events and be engaged in any public activities.