News digest for August 13

The emigration of the head of the Chelyabinsk "Vesna", pressure on the father of the ex-director of FBK and the next 15 days of Pussy Riot. Read the main news for August 13.

• The coordinator of the “Spring” movement in Chelyabinsk, Alexander Kashevarov,left Russia due to criminal prosecution. In May, a case was opened against the activist under the “Dada” article.
• In the Krasnodar region, an elderly Jehovah's Witness Vasily Meleshko was sentenced to three years in prison. The believer was accused of holding religious lectures and discussions.
• The prosecutor's office appealed the verdict of Lyubov Sobol in the “sanitary case”. The agency demands that restrictions on the freedom of the ex-FBK lawyer be tightened and that she be banned from visiting the Moscow region. Earlier, information appeared that Sobol had left Russia.
• 64-year-old Crimean Tatar Zekirya Muratov, accused of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, had his term of detention in a pre-trial detention center extended . The prisoner, who has several chronic diseases, is in critical condition: he has pneumonia due to coronavirus.
• St. Petersburg deputy Maxim Reznik's house arrest was extended in a drug case. The oppositionist connects the criminal prosecution with his plans to run for the city Legislative Assembly.
• Pussy Riot member Rita Flores was arrested for 15 days because of her Instagram stories. The activist was detained the day before while leaving a special detention center.
• In the pre-trial detention center, Yuri Zhdanov, the father of the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov, was deprived of painkillers. “There is a dull, endless pain throughout my whole body,” said Yuri Zhdanov. He is accused of forgery and fraud.
• The Prosecutor General's Office has declared the Belgian human rights organization International Partnership for Human Rights "undesirable." According to the department, the activities of this organization “pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation.”
• In Novosibirsk, at a rally for the resignation of the city mayor, unknown persons attacked public figures Mikhail Kondryukov and Viktor Sorokin. The police officers who were nearby decided not to intervene.
• FSIN employees did not allow public defender Evgenia Kulakova to see Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the “Network” case, who is in penal colony No. 1 in the Orenburg region. After being transferred to the colony, he reported deteriorating health.