News digest for July 23

Replenishment of the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents”, refusal to approve the action of the National Bolsheviks and extension of the preventive measure for the person involved in the “sanitary case”. We talk about the main news for July 23.

• Pussy Riot member and defendant in the “sanitary case” Maria Alekhina has had her house arrest extended until January. The activist is accused of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards due to a publication about the action on January 23.
• The Ministry of Justice added to the list of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents” the publication The Insider and journalists from Project, Dozhd, Open Media and Radio Liberty.
• The prosecution asks that Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev, accused of using violence against a government official, be sent for compulsory psychiatric treatment. For almost six months now he has been in a psychoneurological clinic by court decision.
• The defendants in the first Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Rustem Ismailov and Aider Saledinov, sentenced to 13.5 and 11.5 years in a maximum security colony, were placed in a punishment cell for reading night prayers. They allegedly violated curfew.
• The prosecutor requested four years in prison for Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan, Anastasia Guzeva, accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization. Her co-religionist from Abakan, Roman Baranovsky, who was sentenced in February to six years in prison, was transferred to a colony in Chita.
• The police began calling activists detained on February 2 at the Moscow City Court. On that day, a hearing was held there to replace the suspended sentence with a real politician for Alexei Navalny.
• The Perm authorities refused to allow the local National Bolsheviks to approve a rally for fair elections. The city hall referred to the coronavirus pandemic and the need to coordinate the action with the administration of the head of the region.
• The regional court in Kirov ordered officials “not to interfere” with the picket in defense of voting rights. Previously, PARNAS activists filed a lawsuit against the city administration due to the refusal to approve the action.
• Defenders Nikolai Zboroshenko and Eduard Abashev, collaborating with OVD-Info, achieved the abolition of fines under the “rally” article imposed on participants in rallies in support of Navalny. Also, with the participation of Zboroshenko, the Moscow City Court dismissed the case against one of the protesters on January 23.