News digest for September 7

The founder of "Team 29" left Russia, businessman Anatoly Bykov was given a huge sentence, and blogger Yuri Khovansky was left in jail. We are talking about the main news for September 7th.

• Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov was sentenced to 13 years in a 1994 murder case. His supporters attribute the persecution to the businessman's plans to be elected to the State Duma.
• Nikolai Platoshkin, the leader of the For New Socialism movement, had his sentence commuted on appeal . The political scientist was sentenced to 4 years 9 months probation and a fine of 500 thousand in the case of involvement in mass riots and "fakes".
• Lawyer and ex-head of "Team 29" Ivan Pavlov left Russia. The human rights activist, who became a defendant in a criminal case on the disclosure of investigation data, said that the security forces made his professional activities in the country impossible.
• YouTube blogger Yuri Khovansky extended has his detention . He is charged under an article on justifying terrorism because of a song about taking hostages in the theater on Dubrovka.
• In Kostroma, Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Terebilov was sentenced to three years in a strict regime colony on charges of participating in the activities of an extremist organization. Under the same article, his co-religionist from the Pskov region, Alexei Khabarov, was given a three-year suspended sentence. Also in Moscow, believers Yuri Temirbulatov and Alexander Serebryakov were left in a pre-trial detention center because of accusations of organizing meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses.
• The person involved in the Penza case of the "Network" Maxim Ivankin was transferred from the colony. Relatives fear that he will be taken to Vladimir Central , a prison known for violence and torture of prisoners.
• Crimean Tatar activist Vadim Bektemirov, who is accused in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, has been extended his detention in a pre-trial detention center. He is charged with an article on participation in a terrorist organization.
• YouTube blocked the plot of "Rain", in which the debate participant demanded the release of Alexei Navalny. The federal channel insisted on blocking, a fragment of the transmission of which ended up in the video.
• The former head of Navalny's headquarters in Kazan, Oleg Yemelyanov, was fined under the article on fakes. An administrative case was opened in connection with a video about the legality of holding actions without the sanction of the authorities.
• In St. Petersburg, the city court dropped the case against local resident Ali Azbekov, who was detained because of the action on April 21 and fined 10,000 rubles. The same court reduced the fine to Stanislav Pinaevsky, a participant in the January 31 rally, from 15,000 to 10,000 rubles. The interests of both Petersburgers were defended by lawyer Elena Fadeeva, who cooperates with OVD-Info.