News digest for June 8

The appeal in the case of the “Kazan Ten” Hizb ut-Tahrir, the accusation for the ex-director of Open Russia and the decision of the ECHR on compensation in the Bolotnaya case - we talk about the main news for June 8:

• The Investigative Committee has charged the former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov. He is charged with participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization”.
• In Yekaterinburg, the prosecutor requested a year in a colony-settlement for the person involved in the "palace case" Elvara Guliyev. He is accused of using violence against a representative of the authorities at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23.
• The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict against the "Kazan Ten" Hizb ut-Tahrir. The defendants in the case were sentenced to 11 to 20 years in prison under articles on the fate and organization of the activities of a terrorist organization.
• Courts ruled in two cases of Jehovah's Witnesses. Nikolai Aliev, a believer from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, was sentenced to four and a half years' probation, and Dmitry Vinogradov, Jehovah's Witness from Chelyabinsk, to two years' probation.
• Permyakov Daniil Nakonechny and Stanislav Kulmaganov were found guilty under the article on public calls for extremist activities. Because of the graffiti on the anniversary of the capture of the presidential palace in Grozny, they were fined 100,000 and 30,000 rubles, respectively.
• The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation to Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case. In 2015, he was sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony on charges of using violence against a government official and participating in mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.
• The verdict of Lyubov Sobol in the case of breaking into the apartment of FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev was upheld. In April, Sobol was assigned a year of corrective labor - the court decided to consider the sentence suspended.
• A resident of Vladivostok, Nina Kvyatkovskaya, was interrogated as part of the “palace case”. Because of the action in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, the police keep coming to Denis Ruzavin from Vladivostok. The security forces said that the young man was allegedly "connected with al-Qaeda."
• in Moscow An activist was detained because of a solitary picket against political repressions. The girl was released from the police department without a protocol - she was assisted by a lawyer from OVD-Info.
• The courts in Kirov and Samara declared the refusals to approve protest actions illegal. Moreover, due to the refusal to approve the rally, the Samara mayor's office must pay compensation to local activists.