News digest for August 19

A sentence for a participant in the January protests in support of Navalny, a mitigation of the preventive measure for an entrepreneur from Nizhny Novgorod, and a request for punishment for a defendant in the “sanitary case.” We tell you the main thing for August 19th.

• The defendant in the “palace case,” Said-Mukhamad Dzhumaev, was sentenced to five years in prison. He was found guilty of using violence against a government official at a rally on January 23.
• Nizhny Novgorod businessman Mikhail Iosilevich had his preventive measure changed - he was prohibited from certain actions. Before that, he spent more than six months in a pre-trial detention center on charges of participating in the activities of an “undesirable organization.”
• Pussy Riot member Lyusa Stein was asked to serve two years of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary matter.” The activist is accused of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards due to a rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny.
• The police detained Kaliningrad activists Evgenia Fedulova and Anastasia Nekhaeva, they were taken for interrogation. A criminal case has been opened against Fedulova under the “Dada” article - the girl was placed in a temporary detention center until trial, and she is a suspect in the case.
• In Birobidzhan, Jehovah's Witness Anastasia Guzeva was sentenced to two and a half years probation. The believer was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization.
• The court in St. Petersburgdid not satisfy the complaint to extend the preventive measure for the defendant in the “palace case” Ivan Punegov. The man has been in pre-trial detention since the beginning of May; on August 18, he was sentenced to a year in a penal colony.
• In Chechnya, arrested LGBTQ representatives Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, who are accused of participating in an illegal armed group, are not allowed a lawyer. The pre-trial detention center staff said that the young people were sick with coronavirus.
• Google was fined six million rubles for publishing information about the rallies. The court found the corporation guilty of failing to remove “prohibited content” at the request of the authorities.
• Roskomnadzor sent new protocols to the court against Radio Liberty and its general director Andrei Shary due to violations of labeling of publications.