News digest for July 29

Sentences to participants in a rally against self-isolation, an attempt to place a person involved in a “sanitary case” in a pre-trial detention center, and pressure on former employees of Navalny’s team. About the main thing for July 29 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• The court found guilty of participating in mass riots five activists of the gathering against the self-isolation regime in Vladikavkaz in 2020: Atsamaz Tebloev, Khetag Samov, Georgy Khugaev, Arsen Brikhov and Artur Javadyan. They were sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Javadyan was also charged with using violence against a government official.
• The ex-coordinator of Navalny's Khabarovsk headquarters, Alexei Vorsin, was refused to change the preventive measure. He is under house arrest for repeated violations of the rules for holding public events.
• During the appeal, the court left in custody the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, accused of organizing the murders. The meeting was held behind closed doors.
• Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina will not be placed in a pre-trial detention center, despite the representation of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Now the activist is under house arrest as part of a “sanitary case.”
• The court approved the verdict of the defendant in the “Ingush case” Magomed Khamkhoev. In February, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for inciting violence against security forces.
• The Prosecutor General's Office demands to block the YouTube channel of Novosibirsk deputy and ex-coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters Sergei Boyko. His assistant, opposition activist Kirill Levchenko, was denied registration for elections to the Berdsk City Council.
• In the Kurgan region, the court left Jehovah's Witness Sergei Skudaev in a pre-trial detention center. The believer is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization.
• The staff of the Sakhalin newspaper Uglegorsk News quit due to pressure on the editors. They were preparing material about the activities of the Eastern Mining Company.
• They refused to exclude journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya from the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents.” “This is retaliation for my work,” she said.