Pressure on the media, a colony for faith, approval of the verdict in the “sanitary case” and surveillance of a human rights activist - we talk about the main news for October 26.
- In Mordovia, the defendants in the Tablighi Jamaat case, Ryais Tyshkin, Aisa and Hafiz Aizatullin, had their fines replaced with actual imprisonment. They were sentenced to one to three years in prison under the article on organizing or participating in the activities of an extremist organization.
- The Moscow City Court approved the sentence of Maria Alekhina in a “sanitary case” in connection with calls to take part in a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23. In September she was sentenced to a year of restriction of freedom.
- Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the Fortanga website due to materials about the border agreement between Ingushetia and Chechnya.
- St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov reported the surveillance.
- The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, convicted on charges of fraud, money laundering, illegal entrepreneurship and bribery, was transferred from the Tver pre-trial detention center to Noginsk.
- Poland refused to extradite to Russia Buryat human rights activist Yevgeny Khasoev, who is accused in his homeland of charges of libel and violence against a government official.
- In the Arkhangelsk region, a pet hotel owned by environmental activist Anna Stepanova burned down . During protests against the construction of a landfill on Shies, the girl was threatened with arson.
- Jehovah's Witness Alexei Berchuk, sentenced to eight years in prison, was transported from Blagoveshchensk to Saransk.