News digest for June 18

The search and detention of a Moscow municipal deputy, lawsuits against participants in protests in support of Alexei Navalny and pressure on activists - read about the main events of June 18 in the OVD-Info digest.

• In Moscow, police came to search the house of municipal deputy Ketevan Kharaidze, after which she was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee. In May, Kharaidze announced her intentions to run for the State Duma.
• The court extended the preventive measure for the defendant in the “sanitary case” Nikolai Lyaskin. Previously, he was prohibited from certain actions.
• In Yekaterinburg, the case opened against the son of a deputy from United Russia was dropped . The accused was charged with violence against a government official at a rally on January 23.
• The Court of Appeal returned the Togliatti case of Hizb ut-Tahrir for a new trial. In March, the defendants in the case, Radik Khairutdinov and Elmar Mamedov, were sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison.
• The Ministry of Justice suspended the registration of the PARNAS party due to “technical shortcomings.” This happened after the party list for the State Duma elections was approved.
• The SSL Social Science Laboratory project has announced its closure. Previously, the prosecutor's office demanded that the organization be included in the list of “foreign agents.”
• Kemerovo police filed a lawsuit against local activists. The security forces are demanding almost 700 thousand rubles as compensation for their work at the January protests.
• In Novokuznetsk, law enforcement officers detained a local activist for a solo picket. A report was drawn up against him under an article on violating the procedure for holding a public event.
• The police came to the residence of the former hosts of the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel. Nothing is known about the reasons for the security forces’ visit.