News digest for September 30

A criminal case against the founder of The Insider , pressure on Crimean Tatars in pre-trial detention centers and an end to the persecution of the SOTA journalist. We'll tell you the main news on September 30th.

• The Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped the prosecution under the article of hooliganism against SOTA journalist Nika Samusik. A criminal case was opened because of a performance in support of political prisoners: actionist Pavel Krisevich shot himself in the head with noise cartridges on Red Square. Samusik filmed this action on assignment. The interests of the journalist were defended by lawyers from OVD-Info Katerina Tertukhina and Sergey Telnov.
• Pavel Krisevich himself was hospitalized from the pre-trial detention center for a forensic psychiatric examination. He is accused of hooliganism due to a performance of solidarity with political prisoners.
• The founder of The Insider, Roman Dobrokhotov, who left Russia, was put on the wanted list. The FSB accused him of illegal border crossing. They came to search the journalist's relatives, and Dobrokhotov's father and wife were detained for questioning. Their interests were represented by lawyers from OVD-Info Yulia Kuznetsova and Sergey Telnov.
• Defenders of the Crimean Tatars, persecuted in the cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir, declared “unbearable conditions of detention” in the Novocherkassk pre-trial detention center. According to lawyers, the detention cells are covered with fungus, there are a huge number of rats in them, and there are not enough beds for all the prisoners.
• Diplomats from Uzbekistan came to human rights activist Valentina Chupik, who was placed in a special detention center at Sheremetyevo Airport, to formalize her deportation. The day before, the FSB banned the woman from entering Russia until 2051.
• Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov, sentenced to 13 years in prison, is not receiving medical care in a pre-trial detention center: he was diagnosed with the possibility of a hypertensive crisis. Bykov's associates connect the criminal prosecution with his plans to be elected to the State Duma.
• A resident of the Arkhangelsk region, Andrian Nikolaev, was sentenced to a suspended sentence under the article of inciting hatred or enmity. The man calls himself the “head of the NKVD” of the region and denies the collapse of the USSR.
• The court ordered Rosderzhava journalist Yan Katelevsky, who is in a pre-trial detention center, to study 2 thousand pages of criminal case materials in 10 days. The journalist said that the appointed lawyer was sabotaging familiarization with the case.
• The Ministry of Justice has withdrawn the claim to deprive the former head of Team 29, Ivan Pavlov, of the status of a lawyer. The ministry tried to prohibit him from engaging in professional activities because of transmitting information to journalists about the case of Ivan Safronov.
• The court dismissed the administrative case against Moscow resident Mikhail Elkin, whom the police charged with participating in the April 21 protest. Also in the appeal, the court reduced the fine of Vladislav Kurbaniyazov, who was detained at the rally on January 31. The interests of Muscovites were defended by lawyers from OVD-Info, Daria Aksenova and Elizaveta Levina.