News digest for August 24

While the person involved in the “palace case” was transferred from the Vladimir region to Moscow, the activist who protested against the renovation on a tree was charged. About the main news for August 24 - in the OVD-Info digest.

• Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who climbed a tree with a crossbow as part of a protest against the renovation, was charged . She is charged with an article on hooliganism committed by prior agreement with the use of objects used as weapons.
• The person involved in the "palace case" Roman Pichuzhin, sentenced to two years in prison, was transferred back to Moscow. In July, he was illegally transported to the Vladimir region: Pichuzhin's sentence has not yet entered into force.
• The Court of Cassation upheld the verdict for Vitaly Timofeenko, a participant in the January protests in support of Navalny. In March, he was sentenced to three years in prison under the article on the use of violence dangerous to life and health against a government official.
• The court returned the fourth Hizb-ut-Tahrir case from Bakhchisaray to the prosecutor's office, since the indictment was not written in Braille - this violated the rights of the accused Alexander Sizikov, who became blind as a result of an accident. There are two more defendants in the case: Seyran Khairetdinov and Alim Sufyanov.
• The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Akhmed Pogorov, was included in the list of extremists and terrorists. The man is accused of participating in an extremist community and organizing life-threatening violence against police officers due to protests in Magas in 2019.
• Khabarovsk artist Maxim Smolnikov (Xadad), accused of justifying terrorism, is under investigation. This time, the security forces were interested in his publication on VKontakte, made in 2016, with the song “ACAB” by the PolitZek group.
• Libertarian, ex-coordinator of the Vladivostok headquarters of Navalny Vladimir Dubovsky left the country. In Russia, he fears political persecution.
• The victory of the defenders from OVD-Info in court! Lawyer Olesya Vasilchenko achieved the termination of the case brought against an activist from St. Petersburg due to participation in a rally in support of Navalny.