The Tagansky District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, accused of vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) for the action of setting fire to the doors of the FSB building on Lubyanka. Judge Albina Timakova left the artist in custody until February 6, 2016, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

In Kuban in 2015, criminal cases were initiated and are being investigated against 22 Russian citizens who are suspected of having connections with the banned Islamic State, reports , citing the region’s prosecutor Leonid Korzhinek.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow rejected the claim of Oleg Sentsov from the FSB and the media for the protection of honor and dignity, Grani.ru reports. The ending is a little predictable. Sentsov’s claim against the FSB, NTV, Zvezda and others was rejected.

A resident of the Sverdlovsk region appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a request to continue considering the complaint of her son, who died in October 2015, Zone of Law lawyer Sergei Petryakov, who represents the interests of the victim, told Mediazona.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Petrovsk-Zabaikalsk prosecutor's office revealed the fact that an employee of the Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky boarding home for mentally retarded children committed violent acts against a child, the reports . regional department According to the prosecutor's office, on the night of November 25, 2015, in the first building of the boarding house, the ward nurse on duty tied a child to the bed by the leg, who woke up at four in the morning and behaved calmly.

The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, a defendant in the Bolotnaya case, as a political prisoner, according to the center’s website. “The Memorial Human Rights Center considered and still considers the entire big Bolotnaya case and the verdicts passed on it to be unjust and unfounded.

Lawyers for Dmitry Buchenkov appealed to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, with a complaint about the “vicious practice of preventing the exercise of the right to defense” formed in the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee, lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev told Mediazona.

Photo: Konstantin Chalabov / RIA Novosti In early November, the former activist of Mger and the head of the Union of Volunteers of Russia, Yana Lantratov, publicized the facts of the mockery of the children of the Chita orphanage - children beat, hunger, tied to doors and pillars, subjected sexual violence and poisoned as “lowered”. Two weeks later, more than a dozen criminal cases have already been instituted at the teachers of the orphanage, police and doctors.

The growth in the number of prisoners in Moscow pre-trial detention centers, the overcrowding of which was repeatedly stated by the FSIN, has been stopped, said the head of the Moscow FSIN, Major General Igor Klimenov. “This year we stopped the increase in overcrowding in seven pre-trial detention centers in the city,” Klimenov said. According to the official, there are about 11.5 thousand prisoners in Moscow pre-trial detention centers.

The Moscow City Court did not allow Dmitry Demushkin to appeal the ban and recognition of the “Russians” movement as extremist, TASS reports citing Demushkin himself. “The Moscow City Court did not forward the appeal against the ban on the Russians to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, leaving the complaint without progress and citing the fact that I am not a party to the process, although in its decision it was I who was recognized as the leader of the association,” Demushkin said.

In Nizhny Novgorod, investigators dropped the criminal case on organizing an extremist community against former member of the “Army of the People’s Will” Pavel Butko, his lawyer Evgeny Gubin told Mediazona. Pavel Butko was accused of “organizing the activities of a public association, in respect of which the court made a final decision to liquidate or prohibit its activities in connection with the implementation of extremist activities” (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The wife of the defendant in the “Tsapkov gang” case, Natalya Tsepovyaz, turned to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, RBC reports . From the text of the statement it follows that Tsepovyaz requests “to take prosecutorial response measures” against the authors of the FBK investigation about the Chaika family. The application was submitted on December 8; the prosecutor’s office did not respond to RBC’s request whether Chaika received this appeal.

The Constitutional Court recognized the interpretation of the law in the Moscow City Duma elections as incorrect, reports Slon with reference to the court decision. The Constitutional Court found that the Moscow City Election Commission incorrectly interpreted federal and city legislation when Yankauskas was under house arrest.

Human Rights Commissioner Ella Pamfilova spoke about the increase in the number of complaints from Russians about rights violations, TASS reports . Compared to 2014, the number of complaints increased by 18%, Pamfilova said at a press conference in Moscow. “The number of requests increased by 18%. But what makes me happy is that their structure has changed.

Three people were killed in Kabardino-Balkaria for resisting law enforcement officers, TASS reports citing the National Anti-Terrorism Committee. According to NAC, one of the killed was trained in Syria and returned to Kabardino-Balkaria “to conduct terrorist activities, formed a bandit group from those previously convicted and planned to carry out terrorist activities in the North Caucasus.” “The bandits have been previously identified.