News digest for October 29

Real term due to photography, pressure on believers and violation of the right to freedom of assembly. We tell the main news for October 29.

• In Rostov-on-Don, a court sentenced Rustem Seitmemetov, Amet Suleymanov, Osman Seytumerov and Seytumer Seytumerov, defendants in the third Bakhchisaray case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, to terms of 12 to 17 years in a strict regime colony.
• Blogger Ruslan Bobiev and his girlfriend Anastasia Chistova were sentenced by the court to 10 months in prison because of a photo with imitation of oral sex against the backdrop of St. Basil's Cathedral. The investigation found them guilty of insulting the feelings of believers.
• A court in Irkutsk fined a young man 100,000 rubles for uploading a photo of Hitler to the website of the Immortal Regiment. The young man was charged with an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism.
• In Moscow, a court extended the detention of Jehovah's Witnesses Eduard Sviridov, Sean Pike, and Alexander Rumyantsev. In Chelyabinsk, their co-religionist Dmitry Vinogradov approved the sentence. In the Amur Region, the cases of Sergei Afanasyev, Sergei Kardakov, Anton Olshevsky, Adam Svarichevsky and Sergei Yermilov were taken to court. In the Khabarovsk Territory, Jehovah's Witnesses Elena Nesterova, Tatiana Svoboda and Tatiana Bondarenko were searched on suspicion of participation in an extremist organization.
• The blogger Klava Belova was searched , presumably in a libel case. Investigative measures may be related to Belova's videos about the sale of land in Domodedovo and illegal development.
• The Supreme Court of Kalmykia refused to consider a lawsuit against the administration of Elista to limit the places for holding pickets. The mayor's office's ordinance on picketing sites was probably passed in excess of its authority.
• In Kemerovo, the court once again extended the house arrest of blogger Mikhail Alferov. The young man is charged under an article on inciting hatred or enmity because of a video in support of Alexei Navalny.
• In Kirov, the city administration did not approve a rally in memory of the victims of political repressions. The district court declared the refusal illegal, but then the regional court overturned this decision on appeal and the event was not agreed upon.