News digest for August 25

Restriction of freedom of the defendant in the “sanitary case”, threats to an activist from Berdsk and fines of up to half a million rubles due to involvement in Tablighi Jamaat. We talk about the main news for August 25th.

• The court imposed a year of restriction of freedom on the defendant in the “sanitary case”, Lyusya Stein. She was found guilty of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards.
• Three defendants in the Tablighi Jamaat casewere sentenced to fines of up to 500 thousand rubles. The court found Ryais Tyshkin, Aisa and Hafiz Aizatullin guilty of organizing and participating in the activities of an extremist organization.
• Unknown people threatened the independent candidate for the Berdsk City Council, Daria Artamonova. Her parents were sent a funeral wreath with a note “Alexander Nikolaevich, Galina Alexandrovna, together we mourn Daria.”
• Five Crimean Tatars - Remzi Bekirov, Rize Izetov, Raim Aivazov, Shaban Umerov and Farkhod Bazarov - had their arrest extended in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. They are charged with organizing the activities of a terrorist organization and preparing for the violent overthrow of the constitutional order.
• A former volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa and a deputy of the Russian-Yurmash village council, Albert Gaskarov, was detained by the police. Presumably, this is related to the case of participation in the activities of an extremist organization.
• “LGBT Network” spoke about the kidnapping of its client, a native of Dagestan Ibragim Selimkhanov, by security forces in Moscow. They tried to find out from him about the organization’s work in the Caucasus.
• The court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against Kirov activists Vadim Ananyin and Mikhail Semenov, who participated in rallies in support of Navalny. They must pay 183 thousand rubles in compensation for the work of security forces at the rally on January 23.
• The Investigative Committee of Tatarstan opened a criminal case on the illegal sale of bladed weapons against Zelenodolsk City Council deputy Evgeniy Efremov. The politician himself considers the case absurd and connects it with criticism of the authorities.
• Activist Kirill Petrov, detained at a rally on January 31 in support of Navalny, was awarded 10 thousand rubles as compensation for moral damage. This amount should compensate for the damage caused by illegal administrative prosecution.