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War on photographs
Hello! Over the past few days, two scandalous events have occurred related to Moscow photo exhibitions. Photographs of naked teenagers by American Jock Sturges so outraged member of the Public Chamber Anton Tsvetkov that he arrived at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, where they were exhibited, along with representatives of his organization “Officers of Russia”. They blocked the entrance and prevented anyone from visiting the exhibition. After communicating with Tsvetkov, the organizers decided to close the exhibition. And in the Sakharov Center, the indignation of a municipal deputy and people dressed as Cossacks was caused by photographs dedicated to the war in eastern Ukraine. Eventually the police blocked the entrance and demanded everyone leave the premises.
Who's Afraid of 212.1
Roman Roslovtsev, who was persecuted for walking in a Putin mask and with a poster “I’m not afraid 212.1” (an article of the Criminal Code punishing “repeated violations of the rules for holding public events”) and who asked for political asylum from the Ukrainian authorities, returned to Russia and was immediately detained . He was kept in the police department for the night, a report was written under the administrative article about “repeated violations” - and he was released, and the trial was postponed to the end of October.
But Ildar Dadin, the only one sentenced under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, went to a colony . He is serving his sentence in Karelia, in the same place where Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned.
More about (non)freedom of assembly
Residents of the Moscow district of Teply Stan, who opposed the construction of a residential complex, were detained by dismantling the barrier of their cars (they blocked the entrance to the construction site) and beating several people, among whom, according to unconfirmed reports, was a random passerby. In Novy Urengoy, residents of a dilapidated building protesting against turning off the heating were detained while talking to journalists.
In Veliky Novgorod, protocols were drawn up against shareholders of the “Public Credit” who stood in single pickets on the day of Putin’s arrival.
In Makhachkala, after several weeks of silence, parishioners of a Salafi mosque were again detained .
Even a funeral can be a reason for persecution: in the Stavropol Territory, the police stopped and questioned people returning from the funeral of the shot dead deputy imam of one of the mosques.
Other persecutions
The defense of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, convicted in the Bolotnaya case , filed a complaint against the verdict with the European Court of Human Rights.
The Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people has found itself at the center of the events of recent days. Its members were summoned for questioning by the Center for Countering Extremism , several people were fined for holding a meeting, and in the end the Supreme Court declared the ban on the organization legal . Read the commentary by Kirill Koroteev, a lawyer at the Memorial Human Rights Center, about the consequences of this ban.
Prosecutions under extremist and terrorist offenses do not lose their relevance. The head of the Moscow branch of the Nation and Freedom Committee, Vladimir Ratnikov,was sentenced to a year of probation for posting songs on a page on a social network. An employee of the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, Bakhrom Khamroev, was detained during a search and interrogated by the FSB as a witness in the case of members of the Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, which was groundlessly declared terrorist. In Krasnoyarsk, a protocol was drawn up against a former parliamentary candidate for displaying Nazi paraphernalia for depicting Putin in a Nazi uniform and other similar pictures. And in the Irkutsk region, a citizen of Tajikistan was fined for publishing on social networks a video lecture by an Islamic preacher, which was groundlessly recognized as extremist.
One of the frequently used methods of influence remains beating. In the pre-trial detention center of the Arkhangelsk region, Sergei Mokhnatkin was beaten , against whom new cases were opened while he was in the colony. In Barnaul, unknown persons attacked journalist Grigory Pasko, shouting “Get out of our city!”
What awaits us (02.10 – 08.10)
On October 4, the first decision of the ECHR in response to the complaint of one of those convicted in the Bolotnaya case against the verdict should be published.
On October 3, a well-known figure on the Runet, Anton Nosik, will be sentenced for a post endorsing the bombing of Syria. The prosecutor demands 2 years in prison.
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