Moscow’s Tverskoy and Presnensky Courts have blocked access to the floors in their buildings that are being used on August 26 for preliminary hearings in the “mass rioting” case against Moscow election protesters Danil Beglets and Vladislav Sinitsa. Journalists from Mediazona who arrived at both courthouses were denied access to the hearings: Bailiffs said they had closed the hearings to observers due to a court order. Beglets’s wife and Sinitsa’s mother were also prohibited from entering their respective courtrooms.