Lucy Stein and Maria Alekhina Pussy Riot participants Maria Alekhina and municipal deputy Lucy Shtein, arrested for 15 and 14 days under the article on the demonstration of Nazi symbols, announced a hunger strike, lawyer Daniil Berman told Interfax. According to Berman, Alekhin and Stein, they demand that they be placed in one camera in a special cost in Sakharovo and allowed them to communicate. As Medusa clarifies , now the special receiver with Alekhina and Stein contain four women.

Judge of the city court of Petrozavodsk Ekaterina Khomyakova increased the term of punishment for the head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yury Dmitriev from 13 to 15 years of strict regime. Dmitriev was tried for the second time under articles on the production of child pornography (article 242.2 of the Criminal Code), indecent acts (part 1 of article 135) and illegal possession of weapons (part 1 of article 222).

Abubakar Yangulbaev. Photo from his FB page About 40 relatives of the committee’s lawyer against the torture of Abubakar Yangulbaev were stolen in Chechnya, he told the Caucasus. Realts. On Tuesday in Pyatigorsk, Yangulbaev himself was detained. The security forces who detained him introduced themselves as employees of the CPE Chechnya. He had a search, he was questioned about involvement in the opposition movement 1adat.

The "legal" mechanism of Soviet political repression was simple and logical and built in its own way. Soviet officials and propagandists have repeatedly stated that they did not plant anyone for dissent in the USSR. Plant only for actions. These actions may consist in the spread of knowingly false, slanderous fabrications that defeat the Soviet public and state system.