News digest for September 23

Commutation of punishment for the defendant in the “sanitary case”, sentence in the “palace case” and detention of protesters against election fraud. We talk about the main news for September 23.

• Oppositionist Nikolai Lyaskin had his sentence commuted in a “sanitary case”: a year of restriction of freedom was replaced by 10 months. He was found guilty of inciting violations of anti-Covid legislation at the January 23 rally in support of Alexei Navalny. The interests of Navalny’s comrade-in-arms were defended by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov.
• The Supreme Court of Yakutia refused to cancel the decision on forced treatment of shaman Alexander Gabyshev. An anti-Putin activist was placed in a psychiatric hospital in a criminal case for using violence against a National Guard member.
• The FSB has tightened the charges against Crimean Tatar public figure Nariman Dzhelyalov in the case of damage to a gas pipeline. The intelligence service charged him with charges of committing sabotage and purchasing explosives.
• The court refused to cancel the registration of Alexei Navalny in the colony as “prone to escape.” The politician is serving a real sentence in the Yves Rocher case.
• Volzhsk resident Olga Aseinova was fined 30 thousand rubles for her comment that vaccination against coronavirus contributes to infection with this disease. The woman was found guilty under the article on “fake news”.
• The court refused to exclude Radio Liberty journalists Ilya Rozhdestvensky and Elizaveta Maetnaya from the list of “foreign agents”. Their lawyers said that the Ministry of Justice never provided evidence of the journalists receiving funds from abroad.
• Jehovah's Witness from the Murmansk region Denis Merkulov had his house arrest replaced with a ban on certain actions. The believer is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization.
• Vladimir Domnin, convicted in the Right Sector case, continues to be denied medical care in the pre-trial detention center. A political prisoner, whom doctors diagnosed as being at high risk of a heart attack, went on a hunger strike.
• In the Sverdlovsk region, the court canceled the fine imposed on the publication “Oblastnaya Gazeta” due to the mention of the Yekaterinburg society “Memorial”. They tried to prosecute the media under the article of violating the legislation on “foreign agents”.
• Police go around the houses of participants in a rally against election fraud that took place on September 20 in Moscow. Security forces detained municipal deputy Sergei Vlasov, State Duma candidate Sergei Kurgansky, as well as protesters Alexander Bogomolov, Artem Bobrikov and Pyotr Aleshin. The detainees are assisted by lawyers from OVD-Info Lidiya Anosova, Maria Nemova and Artem Nemov.