The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (CC) refused to accept for consideration the complaint of Pussy Riot group member Maria Alekhina against the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on hooliganism. Previously, a similar decision was made on the complaint of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. On Monday, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation published on its website a ruling issued on October 23, 2014.

The Nizhnevartovsk City Court sentenced local resident Marat Tulyakov to pay a fine of 200 thousand rubles for participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, recognized as terrorist in Russia, and for burning an American flag in the courtyard of a mosque. Tulyakov was found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the activities of a prohibited organization), part 3 of Art.

Former first deputy director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Valery Kraev proposed submitting to the State Duma a proposal for a broad amnesty for prisoners in connection with the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The initiative is reported by Echo of Moscow. According to Kraev, holding an amnesty in 2015 will allow the release of up to 150 thousand people.

The Court of Appeal of the Republic of Crimea overturned the acquittal of the senior assistant prosecutor of Sevastopol, who collected 60 thousand hryvnia (about 200 thousand rubles) from local residents to buy stationery for the prosecutor's office. The senior assistant to the Sevastopol prosecutor for environmental legislation was charged under Part 3 of Art.

In Tatarstan, an investigation into a case of mercenarism has been completed: a 27-year-old local resident is accused of having fought as part of illegal armed groups in Syria for three months. The name of the accused is not named; the case was initiated under Part 2 of Art.

Dmitry Monakhov, who was arrested for 15 days this summer for a single picket on Manezhnaya Square, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Monakhov's lawyer believes that the Russian authorities violated the activist's right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. “In the complaint we indicate that three articles of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms were violated: 10th, 11th and 13th.

The Federal Penitentiary Service reports overcrowding in pre-trial detention centers in 15 Russian regions, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Bashkiria and the Smolensk region. According to the department, the problem is most acute in Crimea. “Today we have a problem of overcrowding of pre-trial detention centers in 15 territorial authorities, the greatest concern is the Republic of Crimea, where we have less than 2.9 square meters per detainee.

The Okhansky District Court of the Perm Territory denied parole to the executive director of the Lame Horse nightclub, Svetlana Efremova, who was convicted in the case of a fire that killed 156 people. on Monday that Efremova was denied parole RAPSI reported with reference to a court representative. The club's executive director was sentenced to 4 years in prison in April 2013.

The Strasbourg court decided to recover 2,700 euros from Russia as compensation for moral damage caused to a resident of Krasnodar. He spent 2.5 years in jail on charges of murder and was acquitted by the court. According to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the Russian authorities violated Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights - “The right to freedom and security of person,” the human rights organization “Zona Prava” reports, citing the court’s decision.

The St. Petersburg police are looking for an FSB reserve lieutenant colonel suspected of telephone terrorism. According to preliminary data, the retired security officer was drinking at a friend’s house and called the police with a report that the house where they were was being mined. An unknown person reported an impending terrorist attack in a house on Kamyshovaya Street at about one in the morning on December 1, writes Fontanka .

The Supreme Court of Adygea sentenced former police major Dmitry Guba to 9 years in a maximum security colony. An employee of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory, Guba, extorted 7 million rubles from a local resident, promising to make public information discrediting her.

The prosecutor's office of the Republic of Tatarstan began an investigation in correctional colony No. 19, where, according to human rights activists, mass poisoning of prisoners occurred. The republican Federal Penitentiary Service has already confirmed the fact of illness of seven convicts.

Ex-employee of correctional colony No. 9 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Tver Region, Pavel Leonov, was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in a general regime colony for bribery. He promised the relatives of one prisoner to provide him with parole, and helped another to smuggle a mobile phone into the colony. The Nelidovsky City Court found Internal Service Major Leonov guilty under Part 2 and Part 3 of Art.

The prosecutor's office will conduct an inspection of correctional colony No. 19 in Kazan, where prisoners complained of vomiting and high fever. The cause of poor health could be food poisoning. Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) for the observance of human rights in places of forced detention in Tatarstan addressed the Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildus Nafikov. They write that at least seven people felt unwell after eating in the cafeteria.