The Soviet court of Nizhny Novgorod on Friday recognized as legal the proposal of the prosecutor's office, on the basis of which the human rights organization "Committee against Torture" was included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of "foreign agents". Refuse to grant recognition of the prosecutor's proposal as unlawful. We will appeal.

The prosecutor's office of the Pechersky district of Kyiv opened a case of the kidnapping of the Crimean anarchist Alexander Kolchenko, who is under arrest in the Moscow Lefortovo pre-trial detention center on charges of participation in terrorism. on Friday that a criminal case was opened reported OVD-Info with reference to Kolchenko’s support group. Alexander Kolchenko was arrested in Simferopol in May 2014.

The court in Simferopol held a preliminary hearing in the criminal case of Alexander Kostenko, accused of attacking a soldier of the Crimean special forces unit “Berkut” during the events on the Maidan in Kyiv in 2014. Kostenko’s detention was extended by two months, and Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, who is representing the prosecution in court, said that she would ask for a real sentence for the activist.

Investigators brought charges against the former head of the Moscow Judicial Department Vyacheslav Lipezin, his deputy Lyubov Lopatina and former deputy Igor Kudryavtsev, as well as the general director of the translation agency Rabikon LLC Umar Zarobekov. All four are charged under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud), said official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin on Friday.

The defendant in the case of the so-called mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, was charged in the final version. “They brought charges in the final version. My client refused to testify and will speak at the trial,” the defendant’s lawyer, Dmitry Dinze, told Interfax.

Oppositionist Sergei Udaltsov’s lawyer, Violetta Volkova, intends to initiate an investigation against student from Ulyanovsk Anna Pozdnyakova, who accused the oppositionist of beating three years ago. The application will be filed on the basis of correspondence published by Anonymous International hackers, from which it follows that the activist of the Young Guard of United Russia received instructions from Moscow on how to behave during the trial against Udaltsov.

Alexey Sutuga in IK-14 in Angarsk, March 2015. Photo: PMC Irkutsk region The anti-fascist Alexei Socrates Sutuga, convicted of hooliganism and beating and two weeks ago, etched into the Angarsk IK-14, already received two disciplinary sanctions. The lawyer of the Agora Svetlana Sidorkina talked to the stoop and told Mediazone how and why her client was in a schizo I arrived in Irkutsk and talked with Alexei Sutuga, who already has a second disciplinary sanction.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated complaints from three Russian prisoners and their relatives about a violation of Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - the right to respect for private and family life. The applicants were sent to serve long sentences hundreds and thousands of kilometers from the place of residence of their family and loved ones.

The chief district police officer of the Moscow Zyuzino district lost his job for attacking his subordinate. The police major first shouted at the local police officer, and then grabbed him by the collar and tried to beat him, but the police were pulled away by his colleagues. The conflict occurred in February of this year.

The Moscow City Court refused to overturn the sentence of opposition activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, who was sentenced by the Tverskoy Court to 4.5 years in a maximum security colony for beating police officers. #Mokhnatkin Decision: to refuse the appeal. The sentence (4.5 years of strict regime) was left unchanged.

Law enforcement officials in Irkutsk are immediately checking several reports of attacks on buses and intimidation of drivers not participating in the strike that began in the city the day before. The windows of several cars were broken, one bus was shot at with a traumatic weapon. “If yesterday the drivers simply did not come to the line, then at the moment there is a recorded case where criminal elements on the move smashed the windows of buses that were carrying passengers with stones.

On Friday night, the arrested minors staged an act of disobedience in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Vladivostok: they barricaded the doors to the cells and did not allow the detention center employees to enter. As reports Notepad , citing a source in law enforcement agencies, the reason for the riot was the dissatisfaction of those arrested with the conditions of detention.

The former mayor of the second largest city in the Novosibirsk region, Berdsk, Ilya Potapov, a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, was sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony for taking a bribe, his deputy Vladimir Mukhamedov received 9 years in a maximum security colony. this RAPSI reports with reference to Potapov’s lawyer Alexei Medvedev. The defense lawyer also noted that the court imposed a fine of 500 million rubles on each of the convicts.

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg will consider a criminal case against Dixie store employee Gulzhon Khudoynazarova, accused of arbitrariness. She held a 12-year-old boy, whom she suspected of theft, in the store's back room and demanded to show the contents of the backpack. The case was investigated under Part 1 of Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (arbitrariness).

The head of the Kazan Human Rights Center, Igor Sholokhov, sent a statement to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan to initiate a criminal case against two employees of the Kazan State Medical University for an unreliable expert opinion. As Mediazona was told by the press service of the CPC, human rights activists believe that the actions of the experts constitute a crime under Part 1 of Art.