News digest for June 16

The court extended the measure of restraint for the defendants in the "sanitary case", the police sued the Kirov activists for hundreds of thousands of rubles, and the Perm communist was sent to a mental hospital because of a complaint against the judge. About the main news of political pressure for June 16 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• The prosecution requested five years in prison for St. Petersburg anarchist Alexander Merkulov. The activist is charged with an article justifying terrorism because of the publication on VKontakte.
• The court extended the measure of restraint for four defendants in the "sanitary case". Kira Yarmysh, Maria Alyokhina, Oleg Stepanov and Dmitry Baranovsky will remain under house arrest.
• The State Duma in the third reading approved a bill on cooperation with an "undesirable organization". It provides for up to five years in prison for donations to such an organization.
• The prosecutor requested a fine of 80 thousand rubles to Artyom Sazonov, a person involved in the "palace case" from Kursk. He is charged under an article on assaulting a government official at a rally on January 23.
• In St. Petersburg, was detained the deputy chairman of the Libertarian Party, Marina Matsapulina, for interrogation - earlier she announced her participation in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the city. The activist is a witness in the case of blocking roads to protests in support of Alexei Navalny.
• In Kirov, Interior Ministry officials sued local activists. They want to recover about 300 thousand rubles from them for the work of police officers at protests.
• Security forces searched the home of Alexander Kazakov, a Jehovah's Witness from Krasnoyarsk. The investigative measure took place as part of a case filed against Jehovah's Witnesses from Tyva.
• A communist from the Perm Territory was placed in a psychiatric hospital because of a complaint against a judge. Employees of the Investigative Committee saw in the complaint "signs of insult."
• In Voronezh, the mother of the former FBK designer Anatoly Kravchenko came to the police. They asked her about the work of her son - because of the visit of the security forces, the woman became ill.
• Five defendants in the second Hizb ut-Tahrir Simferopol case - Ruslan Suleimanov, Osman Arifmemetov, Rustem Sheikhaliev, Enver Ametov and Yashar Muedinov - were denied re-familiarization with the materials of the criminal case. The court referred to the fact that it was unable to ensure familiarization with the case in the pre-trial detention center where the accused were.