News digest for July 6

The Kazan defendants in the “palace case” have had their charges increased, the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Khabarovsk headquarters has had their house arrest extended, and a lawyer is not allowed into the detention center to see the former director of Open Russia. We talk about the main news for July 6th.

• Kazan defendants in the “palace case” Elnar Efimov and Kamilla Khaibullina were charged with another article - about calls for participation in mass riots. Initially, they were accused only of calls for extremism.
• The prosecutor's office appealed the court's refusal to choose a preventive measure for Irina Ermilova, the aunt of politician Dmitry Gudkov. She is accused in a case of causing damage to the Moscow Property Department.
• In the Moscow region, an unknown person shot at activist and deputy assistant Evgenia Egorova. She investigated the theft of state property in the region and participated in the trial against the administration of Podolsk and local police officers.
• The former director of Open Russia, Andrei Pivovarov, who is in custody, is not allowed a lawyer. The administration of the pre-trial detention center also refused to give the politician a copy of his passport, which is necessary for submitting documents for elections to the State Duma.
• The ex-coordinator of Navalny's Khabarovsk headquarters, Alexei Vorsin, has had his house arrest extended for six months. The oppositionist is accused under the “Dada” article of repeated violation of the rules for holding public events.
• The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, claims that FSIN officers beat him in the hospital. The politician connects this with publications about torture in the Tver colony.
• The Investigative Committee of the Chelyabinsk Region announced the detention of those involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. They are accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization.
• The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva. In July 2020, she was fined 500 thousand rubles in the case of justifying terrorism. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a radio broadcast in which the journalist discussed the possible motives of Mikhail Zhlobitsky, an anarchist who blew himself up in the reception room of the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate.
• The police detained Novokuznetsk activist Igor Gorlanov. OVD-Info does not know where the activist is and what is happening to him.
• Jehovah's Witness Alexey Budenchuk was released from a correctional colony in Orenburg. In 2019, the believer was sentenced to three and a half years in prison under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization. Budenchuk’s sentence was counted toward the time he spent in custody before the sentence came into force—he spent more than eleven months in a pre-trial detention center.