News digest for June 24

The lawyer of a native of Uzbekistan, killed in Crimea during a search by security forces, is not given his body, and in Chelyabinsk the prosecutor asked for seven years in prison for an elderly Jehovah's Witness. About the main news of political pressure for June 24 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• In Crimea, for 46 days the relatives and lawyer have not been given the body of a native of Uzbekistan, killed by FSB officers during a search. The Investigative Committee refers to the fact that specialists are conducting a forensic medical examination.
• The Supreme Court ignored the decision of the ECHR on the inadmissibility of an excessively long stay in custody and considered it legal to extend the arrest of those involved in the Ufa case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Radmir Maksutov, Rustem Gallyamov, Danis Faizrakhmanov, Artur Salimov and Rinat Nurlygayanov spent more than three years in a pre-trial detention center, and then they were sentenced to terms from 22 to 25 years in prison.
• The prosecutor requested a seven-year real sentence for 75-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Chelyabinsk Vladimir Suvorov. A case was brought against an elderly believer because of meetings at which his fellow believers prayed and sang religious songs.
• The person involved in the “sanitary case”, Konstantin Yankauskas, was not extended the preventive measure. FSIN officers removed his bracelet and took away the “station” that tracked his movements.
• In Samara, the courtsent local blogger Aidar Kamaletdinov, who was detained on June 22, to a pre-trial detention center. He is accused of unlawful imprisonment by prior conspiracy and extortion.
• An FSB investigator offered journalist Ivan Safronov a deal: the accused would be allowed to call his mother “directly from his office” if he began to cooperate with the investigation. Safronov’s mother is a witness in his criminal case, so they are prohibited from communicating.
• The former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Kostroma, Alexander Zykov, was taken for questioning to the Investigative Committee. The activist is a witness in a fraud case brought against Alexei Navalny.
• The prosecutor's office recognized as legal the actions of law enforcement officers who groundlessly detained a resident of Alushta along with her 7-year-old daughter. The woman spent several hours in the police department; when she tried to leave, the detective restrained her by force.
• The court found the Kalmyk activist guilty of violating the rules for organizing a public event due to a single picket, which formally took place on the territory of the court. He was assigned 30 hours of compulsory work.
• Police detained three activists from Perm while recording a video message to Vladimir Putin. They are fighting to preserve the city stadium.