Navalny is again waiting for a verdict

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The re-trial in the Leninsky District Court of Kirov of the Kirovles case against Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov has come to an end. In the last week of the hearings, the court demanded that the defendants be forcibly delivered to the trial, in connection with which Ofitserov was discharged from the hospital . The court ruled to take from the accused a written undertaking not to leave Kirov, and then refused to call witnesses for the defense , including those whose testimonies during the investigation led to the fact that the “Case of Kirovles” was refused to start several times. The prosecution asked for Navalny and Ofitserov to be sentenced to five and four years of probation.

Lack of freedom of assembly

In the meantime, the European Court of Human Rights has awarded Navalny more than 60,000 euros in damages over seven detention complaints in 2012 and 2014, two of which resulted in administrative arrests.

for pickets near the presidential administration building in connection with the “Kirovles Case” Two people were detained . Two more detainees were previously fined ten thousand in their absence.

In Moscow, at a rally for the preservation of trolleybuses, five people were forcibly placed on a bus (police officer).

In St. Petersburg, the organizer of a protest against the decriminalization of domestic violence was detained for installing a fence. a rally on this topic And in Moscow , they refuse to agree on .

In Vladivostok, participants in a mock picket were detained for moving bridges, in Kalmykia and Transbaikalia , picketers who disagreed with socio-economic policies, and in Novocherkassk, activists of a charitable foundation who came out to urge people not to give money to scammers posing as philanthropists, in the Moscow region, an activist, made a remark to traffic police officers.

In Moscow, four activists were detained in a cafe after employees of the Center for Combating Extremism approached them with provocations and insults.

Moscow upheld the decision on a fine of 200,000 against activist Viktor Kapitonov, who was detained at a solitary picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya. During the arrest, Kapitonov's arm was broken.

And in St. Petersburg, were recognized as legal fines of 50,500 rubles to the activist of the Association of Carriers of Russia, Alexander Makarov, for blocking a toll road. Makarov was fined 500 rubles under the article on disobeying the lawful demands of police officers and 50 thousand rubles under the article on blocking transport communications.

LGBT events were not coordinated in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok .

Meetings of residents with deputies are under attack: the Duma intends to equate these events with rallies and demand approval.

Extremism

The Crimean Supreme Court recognized as lawful the arrest for 10 days of lawyer Emil Kurbedinov, who represents the interests of many Crimean Tatars. Kurbedinov was sent under arrest under an article on the distribution of prohibited symbols for posting on the social network VKontakte with the symbols of Hizb ut-Tahrir in 2013, before the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

The court left in custody members of Hizb ut-Tahrir from Bakhchisarai Remzi Memetov, Enver Mamutov, Ruslan Abiltarov and Zevri Abseitov, who filed appeals against the extension of their arrest. Also, the court extended until April 8 the detention period for the defendants in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir - Muslim Aliyev, Emir-Usein Kuku, Enver Bekirov and Vadim Siruk.

The leader of the legendary rock band Instructions for Survival, Roman Neumoev, was summoned for a conversation at the Center for Combating Extremism. The employee told Neumoev that they have all the "screenshots" of his songs.

for interrogation in Moscow Belarusian photographer Alexander Vasyukovich was summoned , whose work was seen as propaganda of the Right Sector.

Saratov nationalist Sergei Okunev (aka Leonid Grishin) was fined three thousand rubles right at the hospital, where he was taken after his arrest. Okunev was charged with “producing and distributing extremist materials” (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for posting two songs on the VKontakte social network page that are included in the list of extremist materials.

The Tsivilsky District Court of Chuvashia, having considered seven administrative cases in a day, Anton Kravchenko, a member of the regional council of Open Russia, fined him ten thousand rubles in the amount. All cases were opened under the article on the distribution of prohibited symbols, in particular, for the use of frames from Mikhail Romm's film Ordinary Fascism.

Stage

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow recognized as legal the transfer of Ildar Dadin, convicted in the case of "repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events", to a colony in the Altai Territory.

Ukrainian Sergei Litvinov, convicted in the case of robbery against a Russian citizen in the Luhansk region, was unexpectedly taken away from a colony in the Rostov region. According to unconfirmed reports - to the Magadan region.

Other types of persecution

was again hospitalized Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., coordinator of Open Russia, . The symptoms are very similar to those that were revealed in him in May 2015 - then many suggested that it was deliberate poisoning.

What awaits us (05.02 - 11.02)

On February 8, a verdict is expected in the Kirovles case (see above).

On February 9, Kurgan will continue to consider the case against the local former imam Ali Yakupov: he is accused of allegedly predicting heavenly punishments for the Chinese Communists for banning hijabs in schools.

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