Prisoners of IK-2 Tatarstan. Photo: Maxim Bogodvid / RIA Novosti, Archive The lawyers of the “Kazan human rights center” filed an application to the Investigative Committee with a request to institute criminal proceedings under an article on negligence on the death of a convicted person serving a sentence in the Kazan IK-2. The prisoner, who was ill in a colony with tuberculosis, died a few days before the court was supposed to consider the prosecutor’s appeal to the decision to release it.

The Syktyvkar City Court on Tuesday decided to change the preventive measure for local resident Elena Eske from house arrest to detention in a pre-trial detention center, reports the online magazine 7x7. The court also decided to hand over the child Eske, who was born a week ago, to the guardianship authorities. Eske is charged under Art. 160 of the Criminal Code (misappropriation or embezzlement).

The Moscow City Court confirmed the decision of the court of first instance on the need for human rights activists from the Public Verdict Foundation to register with the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent, RAPSI reports . The Public Verdict petition was denied. Human rights activists demanded that the prosecutor's inspection of the fund and the results, according to which they need to obtain registration with the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent, be declared illegal.

The appeal against the sentence of the ex-deputy head of the Moscow region department of the Bailiff Service (USSP) Andrei Kaminov was partially satisfied, the Moscow agency reports , citing a court representative. “The court excluded the charge of indecent assault (Article 135 Part 1 of the Criminal Code) from the verdict and reduced Kaminov’s sentence from two years and six months to two years in a general regime colony,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The European Court of Human Rights registered a complaint by Mikhail Feldman, the accused in the case of hoisting the German flag over the building of the Kaliningrad branch of the Federal Law Court. It took the court less than a month to make a decision. “The exact reasons for such a speed of decision-making are not clear, it’s surprising to me.

Some of those detained in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Ingushetia announced that they were refusing to eat. In addition to complaints about living conditions, the defendants cite the beating of one of them as the reason for the hunger strike. “On November 27, my colleague Abubakar Tsechov and I, as part of an inspection team, carried out an inspection of human rights compliance in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Ingushetia.

The prosecutor's office sent to court a criminal case initiated against the commandant of the security corps of the regime department of the Novosibirsk pre-trial detention center-2, Yuri Kurbakov. According to investigators, in early September he beat a detainee with a rubber truncheon. As reported on the website of the Novosibirsk prosecutor's office, the supervisory agency has already approved the indictment in the Kurbakov case.

The Moscow City Court rejected the appeal against the decision to place oppositionist Alexei Navalny under house arrest. Thus, the preventive measure against the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation was recognized as legal. As Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh reports on Twitter, the Moscow City Court judge left the lower court's decision unchanged: the oppositionist is still prohibited from leaving his apartment in Maryino and exchanging correspondence in any form.

The Khostinsky District Court of Sochi overturned the decision of the magistrate to collect a fine of 30 thousand rubles from the head of the local branch of the religious organization “Community of Christians,” Alexander Kolyasnikov. Two months ago, a pastor was fined for a religious meeting in a cafe.

The former general director of Bashneft, Ural Rakhimov, testified in absentia in the case of the theft of assets of enterprises of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex. The businessman himself has been put on the international wanted list and is now in Austria. “Ural Rakhimov gave written testimony through his lawyer,” said an Interfax source familiar with the situation.

Summing up the results of the amnesty in June 2014, the Federal Penitentiary Service reported on its application to 24,335 prisoners, but the majority of those “released” - 23,203 people - were given suspended sentences and were registered with the penitentiary inspectorates. Another 457 people were released from house arrest. In fact, only 675 people were released from correctional institutions.

The Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region completed the investigation against the accused under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of official powers) by a former employee of the Sedelnikovskoye police department. “According to the investigation, on March 20, 2014, at the police station, in order to obtain a confession, a police captain hit a 42-year-old woman in the face with a diary, whom he suspected of involvement in the theft.