Wear a bracelet, don't write letters

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This time we have good news: a campaign has been launched for the abolition of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, the same one under which people are imprisoned for participating in single pickets too often! However, this is where the good news ends.

What happened (16.01 - 22.01)

Kuban ecologist Evgeniy Vitishko, whose remainder of his prison term was commuted to restricted freedom, was required to wear an electronic bracelet, the kind usually worn by those placed under house arrest. The criminal-executive inspection explained that this was the order “from above.”

The FSB has instructed Crimean post offices to monitor letters addressed to suspects or those convicted of extremism and terrorism. Post office employees were told to immediately contact management if anyone on the list receives a letter or package in the mail, or if anyone asks about it. Management is obliged to inform law enforcement agencies.

The week was marked by harassment of journalists. In Arkhangelsk, Ilya Azovsky, editor of the newspaper Pravda Severo-Zapada, was sent to a colony: he was accused of drug possession. Azovsky is known as an opponent of the governor of the Arkhangelsk region. In Saratov, the investigation into the case of journalist Sergei Vilkov, accused of slandering a local deputy, has been resumed ; It was previously reported that the investigation into the case had already been completed. And in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Oksana Riznich, editor of the Na Rubezhe newspaper, was fired - according to the mayor, “for supporting the opposition.”

Absurd

The idea of ​​punishing “repeated” violations at public events has reached truck drivers—and Orenburg. On January 18, the coordinator of the truckers' protest, Alexei Gubantsov, was fined 75 thousand rubles for collective travel on the street on December 30, 2015; The “repetition” was that in November he had already been fined for simultaneously parking several dozen trucks.

A 75 thousand fine is not a record. On the same day, in Murmansk, the former head of the LGBT organization Maximum, Sergei Alekseenko , was fined 100 thousand rubles on charges of “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors.”

Wanted week

76-year-old Vladimir Ionov , accused of repeated violations at rallies, who left for Ukraine without waiting for a verdict, has been put on the federal wanted list. And also the former owner of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR Lenur Islyamov , who is now accused not only of calling for separatism and sabotage for organizing the energy blockade of Crimea, but also of organizing an illegal armed group.

In addition, the Prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya stated that the chairman of the Mejis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, and the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustaf Dzhemilev, have been put on the international wanted list (however, their names are not yet listed in the Interpol database). It was not immediately known what such measures were connected with - Poklonskaya refused to name the articles incriminated against Dzhemilev, so as not to “harm the investigation.” As it turned out later, two of the three episodes occurred in Crimea long before the referendum on joining Russia . What Chubarov is accused of is still unknown.

Police respond to citizen reports

In Moscow, on the night of January 20, a spontaneous memorial at the site of the murder of Boris Nemtsov was again vandalized . Just like a week ago , the activist on duty on the bridge was detained after an anonymous call on “02”.

The police responded differently to other reports of crime. In Ulan-Ude, the Investigative Committee refused to open a case regarding the attack of the mayor and his assistants on journalists; Simferopol police did not find any violation of the law in the actions of the officer who tried to hand the activist a fabricated protocol; and in St. Petersburg, the police found no violations in the beating of Anti-Corruption Foundation activist Fyodor Gorozhanko by police - after his arrest, he was diagnosed with a concussion .

What awaits us (23.01 - 29.01)

On January 26, the trial in the case of ecologist Valery Brinich , who was accused of aiding extremism in connection with a publication about environmental pollution, is scheduled to begin, rescheduled from this week.

On the same day, Nizhny Novgorod activist of the Other Russia Yuri Staroverov may have his suspended sentence on charges of using violence against a police officer replaced with a real one.

A court review of the legality of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's arrest in absentia has been scheduled for January 27.

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