The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Mordovia will conduct an investigation following a request from the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” which, on behalf of 39 prisoners, demands that a criminal case be opened against employees of Colony No. 10, where prisoners are beaten.

The Strasbourg court demanded that Russia urgently provide information about the treatment of convicted Andrei Lavrov, who is in specialized prison hospital No. 3 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Chelyabinsk Region. The European Court noted that the patient’s health status must be assessed by physicians independent from the FSIN.

Judge Maria Sizintseva of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow on Friday decided to place under house arrest until November 30 the radical Nationalist Alexander Potkin (Belov), who is suspected of legalizing property obtained illegally (Article 174 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. He is prohibited from using the telephone and the Internet, or communicating with anyone other than his defenders and relatives.

The Supreme Court has developed a bill according to which the prosecution and defense will have to independently ensure the attendance of witnesses at hearings. Now this responsibility is assigned to the court. The corresponding bill has already been approved by the relevant State Duma committee and published in the database of legislative initiatives.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia demands that the organization "Ukrainian National Assembly - Ukrainian People's Self-Defense" (UNA-UNSO) be recognized as extremist; the corresponding lawsuit has been sent to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. this on Friday TASS reported ; details of the claim were not provided. The meeting is scheduled for 10.00 on November 17.

The Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, opened a criminal case against a judge from the Kemerovo region. She is suspected of receiving a bribe from a police officer who asked not to deprive him of his license after a drunken accident. The case against the magistrate of the city of Belovo was initiated under Part 3 of Art.

The head of the investigation department of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Stavropol, Artem Nazarov, was found guilty of fraud and taking a bribe and sentenced to 9.5 years in a maximum security colony. Also, Nazarov, who illegally received more than four million rubles, will have to pay a fine of 500 million rubles.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the treatment of 24-year-old Irkutsk resident Elena Mostipan, detained on suspicion of murder, inhuman and degrading. The police, seeking a confession, beat the girl and threatened her with rape. Mostipan was detained in April 2007 and initially denied her guilt, but after interrogation with the participation of police officers she wrote a confession.

Solidarity activist from Krasnodar Viktor Chirikov reports that he was attacked by two unknown men because of the inscription “Putin, go away” on the rear window of a car. According to the activist, he was stabbed through an open car window and “made obscene complaints” about the inadmissibility of such inscriptions. The incident occurred on the highway between Krasnodar and the Lenin farm at about 8.30 am on Tuesday, October 14, writes Novaya Gazeta .

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg for the third time rejected the investigation's request to place the artist Pyotr Pavlensky for a compulsory examination in a psychiatric clinic. “Once again the court decided to refuse to order an in-patient examination for the investigation. A representative of the prosecutor's office stated in court that he would appeal this decision to the city court, and the investigator asked us to undergo an examination, at least on an outpatient basis.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan awarded 50 thousand rubles as compensation for moral damages to police captain Artur Sadretdinov, who was beaten by officers of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Republic of Bashkortostan. “Colleagues” broke Sadretdinov’s spine and nose. Thus, the decision of the court of first instance, which awarded such compensation to Sadretdinov, was left unchanged.

The FSIN department for the Irkutsk region said on Friday that relatives of prisoners at correctional colony No. 2 in Angarsk are disseminating false information about mass beatings of prisoners “in order to destabilize the situation in the institution.” “Today, October 17, at 10 am, on the territory adjacent to correctional colony No. 2 in Angarsk, about 10 people, including previously convicted citizens, introducing themselves as relatives of the convicted, held an action inviting the media.

The Strasbourg court accepted for consideration the complaint of prisoner IK-1 of the Stavropol Territory Sergei Butrin, who was denied release for health reasons. Butrin is completely blind; he cannot move without assistance or work. The medical commission and the administration of IK-1 advocated for his release, but the court refused - Butrin, convicted of murder, had not yet served half of his sentence.

The investigation will apply for house arrest of nationalist Alexander Belov-Potkin, who was arrested on Wednesday on charges of legalizing illegally obtained property (Article 174 of the Criminal Code). As a Mediazona correspondent reports, this became known from the nationalist’s lawyer Igor Popovsky. The chairman of the Tverskoy court, Olga Solopova, who spoke to journalists, also confirmed that the court would decide the issue of the nationalist’s house arrest.

The detention of Alexander Potkin (according to his political activity also under the pseudonym Belov) was the first to report the newspaper Kommersant. He was detained on the morning of October 15 at the Intourist Kolomenskoye hotel, during a search of the room various financial documentation and literature were seized, which the police are considered extremist.