News digest for June 25

Hunger strike of a person involved in the “palace case” and a municipal deputy from Moscow, extension of the measure of restraint for the rector of the Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and mitigation of the sentence of a Jehovah’s Witness. About these and other news - in the OVD-Info digest.

• improved sanitary conditions with the help of a hunger strike Yevgeny Tugankov, a person involved in the "palace case", who is in the colony, achieved . He went on a hunger strike, demanding that prisoners be allowed to use the washbasin in the dining room and provide the colony with sanitizers in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. The administration promised to fulfill the demands, after which the prisoner ended his hunger strike.
• Moscow deputy Ketevan Kharaidze, who is on a hunger strike in a pre-trial detention center, is not given water. On June 17, her house was searched, and then the politician was taken to the UK for night interrogation. Kharaidze links the criminal prosecution with her desire to run for the State Duma.
• Mikhail Iosilevich, a Nizhny Novgorod activist and rector of the Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, has had his detention extended by two months. He is a defendant in a case of cooperation with an "undesirable organization."
• Bryansk activist Vyacheslav Korshunov was summoned for interrogation in the case of blocking roads at rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. At the moment he is in the case in the status of a witness.
• The Simferopol court decided to pay Crimean Tatar activist Kazim Ametov 190,000 rubles for inadequate conditions of detention in a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case of extortion. In the cell where he was kept, there was no glass in the windows, and there were not enough beds for all the prisoners, so he had to sleep in turns.
• In Samara, libertarian Sergei Podsytnik was drafted into the army despite health restrictions. Previously, the activist also worked in the Samara headquarters of Navalny.
• Alexander Shcherbina, Jehovah's Witness from Krasnodar, had his sentence commuted . Earlier, the court found him guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization and sentenced him to three years in prison. The sentence was reduced by one year.
• In Makhachkala, a court declared illegal the detention of a participant in a rally in support of Ivan Golunov in 2019. The activist was taken to the department because of the recording of a collective video message in defense of the journalist.
• The National Bolsheviks, who were detained in Moscow on June 24, were fined under the article on petty hooliganism. According to them, the security forces admitted that they opened administrative cases against the activists because of the support of one of the leaders of the Other Russia. Outlines of the Future” by Olga Shalina, who was arrested 15 days earlier.
• to administrative punishment twice The Tambov journalist was sentenced for the April 21 rally. At the same time, he was present at the rally as a journalist, he had an editorial task and a press card.