News digest for October 11

The end of the investigation into the case of the ex-director of Open Russia , torture of Jehovah's Witnesses and continued pressure on Alexei Navalny. We tell you the main news for October 11th.

• Alexei Navalny, who is serving a sentence in a correctional colony, was removed from the register as “prone to escape”, but was registered as a “terrorist” and “extremist”. In addition, a court in Moscow recognized the blocking of the oppositionist’s blog, the website of the “Freedom for Navalny” campaign and the YouTube channel “Navalny LIVE” as legal. Finally, the Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal case against the police who beat SMM editor Navalny during a search.
• The investigation into the case of ex-director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov has ended . The politician was charged with carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization in the final version.
• In Yekaterinburg, police detained National Bolshevik Kirill Imashev as he was leaving a special detention center, where he was serving his arrest after an action against election fraud. Now the activist will be tried under the article of demonstrating prohibited symbols.
• In Irkutsk on September 4, security forces brutally beat Jehovah's Witnesses Anatoly Razdabarov and Nikolai Merinov during searches and arrests. Their co-religionist Oleg Lanshakov was arrested in Belarus, where he was seeking political asylum.
• Police in Simferopol detained 15 people who came to the court building, where an appeal in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case was to take place. Presumably, they are charged with violating the high alert regime.
• A court in Moscow fined Moscow City Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Ekaterina Engalycheva 200 thousand rubles. She was charged with organizing a national gathering on September 20 against election fraud.
• The Moscow City Court again upheld the ban on certain actions by the editors of the DOXA student magazine Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natasha Tyshkevich. Journalists are accused of involving minors in dangerous activities.
• The court in Novokuznetsk returned the materials of the administrative case of one of the leaders of the protest against coal mines, Vladimir Gorenkov, to the police for revision. The activist was released from the department, where he spent almost two days.
• In St. Petersburg, the court released Anna Nekrasova, a participant in the 2018 protest against pension reform, from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Previously, she was assigned 60 hours of compulsory work.