News digest for September 10

Real sentences in the case of the banner “FSB is the main terrorist”, a verdict in the “sanitary case” and administrative arrest for a post about “Smart voting”. We talk about the main news for September 10.

• Chelyabinsk anarchists Anastasia Safonova and Dmitry Tsibukovskywere sentenced to two and two and a half years in prison, respectively. They were found guilty under articles of hooliganism due to an action with the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.”
• The defendant in the “sanitary case” Maria Alyokhina was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom. She was found guilty of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological rules at a rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny.
• The editors of the DOXA student magazine, Alla Gutnikova, Natalia Tyshkevich, Vladimir Metelkin and Armen Aramyan, had their ban on certain actions extended . The journalists are accused of involving minors in criminal activities due to the protests.
• A new defendant in the “palace case” has appeared in Moscow: local resident Seraphim Kravchuk was charged with damaging property. According to investigators, the man struck an FSB car during the action on January 23.
• Mosgortrans filed a claim for 1,165,852 rubles against libertarian Gleb Maryasov, accused of blocking roads at a rally on January 23. The organization stated that it suffered losses on the day of the action due to transport downtime.
• In Rostov-on-Don, the court extended the arrests of the defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Servet Gaziev, Dzhemil Gafarov, Alim Karimov, Seyran Murtazav and Erfan Osmanov. One of the prisoners suffered a mini-stroke in the pre-trial detention center.
• Vladimir Domnin, convicted in the case of participation in the Right Sector, went on a dry hunger strike. In the detention center he is denied proper medical care.
• The sentence in absentia to the leader of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, was upheld. He was sentenced to six years in prison for organizing mass riots that allegedly took place in February 2014 in Simferopol.
• The editor-in-chief of the Rostov publication “Golos”, Igor Khoroshilov, was detained because of a publication about “Smart Voting” on his Facebook. The journalist was found guilty under the article of “dissemination of symbols of an extremist organization” and was arrested for 10 days.
• In the center of Moscow, police detained picketer David Abgaryan, who was standing with a poster “Vote correctly, vote smartly.” Oksana Borodina, a lawyer from OVD-Info, went to help the detainee at the OVD.
• The court recovered 15 thousand rubles from the Ufa police in favor of civil activist Olga Komleva, who was detained on the eve of the action on January 23. Law enforcement officers held the woman for more than five hours in the department without drawing up a report.