On the night of July 26, equipment on the railways in Samara and the Leningrad regions caught fire. In both cases, there were no serious consequences. In Samara, unknown partisan_ki set fire to a relay cabinet in the Swedish Sloboda area, reports the SHOT telegram channel related to the security forces. It is reported that at the site of the arson they found a bottle with a remedy for ignition. The cabinet himself went out, this did not lead to delays in the movement of trains.

Niger President Mohamed Bazoum was detained in his palace by his own presidential guard, Reuters and AFP reported. Bazoum called the guards' actions "vain" and "anti-republican." According to Reuters, military members of the presidential guard took control of all roads to the presidential palace and the national television agency.

At the Sasovo station in the Ryazan region, four train cars with sulfur caught fire, RBC reports , citing the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fire was localized to an area of ​​80 square meters and extinguished. The Baza Telegram channel writes that a Russian Railways employee was injured and was poisoned by sulfur fumes. He was hospitalized. Meduza, citing the Sasovo administration , reports that specialists are taking air samples.

Sociologist and left -wing publicist Boris Kagarlitsky was arrested in the case of "Calls for terrorism" . This was reported by his daughter Ksenia. Boris Karelitsky “He was transferred to Syktyvkar. The news will be on Thursday after the court consideration of a preventive measure. Lawyer Erokhov S.V., after a preventive measure on Thursday, will lay out a video on Rabocore, ”wrote Ksenia Kagarlitskaya. On July 25, the security forces came to a psychologist and activist Alexander Archagov.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced saboteur Sergei Belavin to 22 years in prison. The investigation accuses him of the explosion of railway tracks near the village of Robchik in the Bryansk region, which occurred on July 9, 2022. Belavin was additionally fined 600 thousand rubles.

Political prisoner Shohista Karimova announced the start of a hunger strike in the colony. This was reported by the “Women’s Term” project with reference to Karimova’s lawyer Viktor Drozdov. According to the lawyer, Karimova went on a hunger strike because of the groundless debiting of funds from her account in the colony and the refusal of the administration to give her the necessary things. In her last letter, Shohista said that she was being sent to a punishment cell.

On July 26, the magistrate court imposed a fine of 200 thousand rubles on Krasnodar resident Sasha for “LGBT propaganda.” The court considered reposts of stories on Instagram and the publication of a picture of a dog with a rainbow scarf to be “propaganda.” The Sphere Foundation reports this. As Sasha told Sphere, on June 28, plainclothes police came to her home.

Ghana has become the 29th African country to abolish the death penalty on its territory. The country has not executed a prisoner since 1993, but courts have continued to issue such sentences. Ghana's parliament voted on Tuesday to amend the Crimes Act to abolish the death penalty for crimes such as murder, genocide, piracy and smuggling. Capital punishment is still possible in cases of treason.

The defendants in the “Tyumen case,” anti-fascists Nikita Oleynik, Roman Paklin, Danil Chertykov, Yuri Neznamov, Deniz Aidyn and Kirill Brik, were charged with "preparing for a terrorist attack" . This was reported by a support group for young people. Previously, anti-fascists were charged under the article of “preparation for a terrorist attack” as suspects.

The founder of the cybersecurity company Grouр-IB, Ilya Sachkov, was sentenced to 14 years in prison and a fine of 500 thousand rubles on charges of "treason" , reports Mediazona. It is unknown what exactly the businessman is charged with; information on cases of “high treason” is classified. The prosecutor's office requested 18 years in prison for Sachkova.

At least four Ukrainian civilians have died due to Russian shelling over the past 24 hours, and at least seven more people have been injured, Ukrainian regional administrations report. The Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Kharkov and Sumy regions came under fire.