News digest for June 28

The editors of DOXA magazine had their charges increased, the prosecutor asked for three years in prison for the person involved in the “palace case,” and employees of the Smolensk technical school helped the police detain the activist. About the main thing for June 28 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• The editors of the DOXA student magazine, Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natasha Tyshkevich, have had their charges increased. To the charges of involving minors in dangerous activities via the Internet, a charge of committing a crime by a group of persons was added.
• FSB officers conducted searches of Jehovah's Witnesses from Chuvashia. The believers' equipment, personal notes and drawings were confiscated. At least seven people were questioned by security forces.
• The prosecution asked for three years in prison for the defendant in the “palace case,” Roman Pichuzhin. He is accused of using violence against a government official at a January rally in support of Alexei Navalny.
• A court in the Voronezh region sent civil activist Grigory Severin to a pre-trial detention center. He is accused of calling for extremism on the Internet due to a post about shooting near the FSB building on Lubyanka.
• An administrative case was opened against the former coordinator of Open Russia in the Tver region, Artem Vazhenkov, under the article on abuse of freedom of speech. The reason for the case was a video about fraud in elections regarding amendments to the Constitution.
• Google, Facebook, Telegram and Twitter drew up ten new protocols under the article on failure to remove “prohibited content” at the request of the authorities. Now information resources face fines of up to 16 million rubles.
• The Yaroslavl police filed two lawsuits against the former head of Navalny’s local headquarters, Alexander Smirnov. Law enforcement officers want to collect more than half a million rubles from the oppositionist for his work at winter rallies.
• Security forces drew up a report against an activist from Smolensk because of a rally in support of Navalny on January 31. Employees of the technical school where she studies helped detain the girl; they did not let her out of the building of the educational institution until the police arrived.
• In Moscow, police took an activist who was holding a one-man picket to the police station. He went out onto Red Square with a poster “Putin, go away.”