News digest for July 12

Municipal deputy Ketevan Kharaidze was released from pre-trial detention center under house arrest, and politician Ilya Yashin announced his resignation as head of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow. About this and other news - in the OVD-Info digest.

• The person involved in the “palace case”, Roman Pichuzhin, was transported to an unknown direction. At the end of June, he was sentenced to two years in prison under the article on the use of violence against a representative of government, but the court decision has not yet entered into force. Another defendant in the “palace case,” Valery Evsin, was sentenced to two years in prison under the same article. On July 12, the court approved this decision.
• Municipal deputy Ketevan Kharaidze was released from pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The politician is accused of fraud; Kharaidze herself links the criminal case with her plans to participate in the State Duma elections.
• Yuri Zhdanov, the father of former FBK director Ivan Zhdanov, accused of forgery and fraud, was transferred from a pre-trial detention center to a hospital at the Federal Penitentiary Service. The exact reasons for the transfer to a medical facility are unknown.
• The president of the Southern Human Rights Center, Semyon Simonov, was found guilty of malicious evasion of a court decision. He was assigned 250 hours of compulsory work.
• The Moscow City Court did not satisfy the complaint against the detention of actionist Pavel Krisevich. The activist will remain in jail - he is charged with hooliganism due to a performance with a shot in the head on Red Square.
• Politician Ilya Yashin announced his resignation as head of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow. He made this decision due to constant inspections of the municipality and pressure from the prosecutor's office.
• In Lipetsk, police detained social activist Dmitry Krasichkov near the building of the local election commission. He was going to give signatures to nominate himself for election to the City Council.
• The Khabarovsk Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs considered it legal for officials to refuse to allow SOTA journalists to attend a meeting of the city parliament, which took place in May. Then the Khabarovsk administration told the publication’s correspondent that SOTA is not a media outlet, but this is not the case.
• Human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina went on a hunger strike due to administrative arrest. According to the activist, she was prosecuted twice for the same act.
• Yekaterinburg political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov left Russia due to pressure from the authorities. Now he is in Lithuania.