Photo: Valery Melnikov / RIA Novosti A special meeting of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC), dedicated to the discussion of the draft law on the media “Law of Sadists” on a change in the procedure for applying special equipment to convicts, collected on Wednesday the administration of the Presidential Prosecutor General’s Office, the FSIN, the Investigative Committee and the leading human rights organizations.

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay 5 thousand rubles to a person detained for disobedience to law enforcement officers, who was held for two days without reason in the Federal Drug Control Service department, where he caught a cold. According to the press service of the court, the applicant received compensation for his detention in January 2015 in the Astrakhan region.

A convict serving a sentence for murder in a correctional colony in the city of Donskoy, Tula Region, fell from a metal tower for lighting an industrial area and is in intensive care. It was initially reported as a suicide attempt, but investigators learned that the 28-year-old inmate was working on an emergency crew and had climbed onto the tower to fix the lights.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is conducting an investigation into the beating of a violator by traffic police officers who was caught on CCTV cameras. Seven inspectorate employees were suspended from work during the inspection.

A criminal case about terrorist attacks in Crimea, of which director Oleg Sentsov and anti-fascist Alexander Kolchenko are accused, was received by the North Caucasus District Military Court. Court press secretary Alena Katkalo told RIA Novosti about this on Wednesday; the date for the preliminary hearing in the case has not yet been announced.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) registered a complaint by publicist Boris Stomakhin against the verdict of the Butyrsky Court handed down to him in 2014. Stomakhin was convicted three times for his publications and is currently serving a 7-year sentence. RAPSI that the complaint had been registered with the ECHR informed Lawyer Damir Gainutdinov, who represents the interests of the convicted publicist, .

The 235th Garrison Military Court of the Moscow Region sentenced Denis Akulenkov and Zhan Mambaev, warrant officers of unit No. 3061 of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to 4 years and 6 months in a general regime colony, who kidnapped a man, took him to the forest and tortured him, demanding that he pay his debt.

The human rights organization “Committee against Torture” will resume work in Grozny in the coming days. The office will be located in the apartment where Memorial employee Natalya Estemirova, who was killed in 2009, lived; Estemirova’s daughter suggested that human rights activists take it over. The human rights organization “Committee against Torture” will resume work in Grozny in the coming days.

Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya demands that the defense lawyer of Dmitry Sotnikov, convicted of attacking Berkut fighters Alexander Kostenko, be debarred, citing the latter’s posts on his Facebook page.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Chita returned to the prosecutor the criminal case against six former police officers who are accused of covering up the death of a detainee. Earlier, recused themselves five judges of the Shilkinsky District Court from this case. “Today the Zheleznodorozhny District Court refused to consider this case on the merits. The stated reason was gross violations of the law by the investigative bodies.

The Moscow City Court requested the case of Alexei and Oleg Navalny, found guilty of embezzling funds from the Yves Rocher company, to study the legality of the verdict. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court, Ulyana Solopova. The cassation authority could have decided to reject the complaint without studying the case materials, but the court requested the case and began studying it, the press secretary explained.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Wednesday recognized as legal the verdict in the case of Roman Ushakov, a Krasnoyarsk policeman sentenced to 15 years for treason. He was found guilty of transmitting an encrypted telegram to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the CIA for a reward of 37 thousand euros.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg declared it illegal to prevent members of the region's Public Monitoring Commission (POC) from entering the penal colony, temporary detention center and police department. Judge Oleg Mesyats came to the conclusion that on February 19 of this year, the head of the Orsk police department No. 1 Ruslan Umargaleev, the deputy head of the Orsk temporary detention facility Yuri Korshikov and the head of the colony-settlement No.

The magistrate's court district No. 91 of the Butyrsky district of Moscow granted amnesty to Viktor Gordeev, the father of a school shooter from Otradny. Gordeev Sr. was accused of careless storage of weapons, with which his son shot two people. “The court pardoned him,” quotes RAPSI a court representative.

The court in Kaliningrad found guilty of the defendants in the case of the hook of the German flag to the building of the Garage of the regional department of the FSB, sentenced to the terms of imprisonment, which they had already left in the pre-trial detention center, and released from custody. As the correspondent of the Mediazones from the courtroom reports, the court sentenced Dmitry Fonarev and Oleg Savvin to 1 year of the colony of general regime.