The head of the American human rights project Voice Project, Hunter Heaney, spoke in defense of director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia, and addressed an open letter to Vladimir Putin.

The bulk of the FSIN budget is spent not on the maintenance of prisoners, but on department employees, according to a report by the Institute of Problems of Modern Society. Almost 70% of the budget of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in 2015 was spent on the maintenance of correctional facility personnel, reports the Institute of Problems of Modern Society (IPSO) in its report.

The Moscow Meshchansky Court has ruled to arrest 12 alleged members of a terrorist organization detained during a special operation in Moscow, RAPSI reports . According to court spokeswoman Yulia Bocharova, all detainees were charged with participation in a terrorist organization (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). The 12 accused were given a preventive measure in the form of detention until January 30, 2017.

Military personnel serving in the Chechen Republic are sent to Syria to participate in the anti-terrorist operation, reports Dozhd , citing a source close to the leadership of Chechnya. This information was also confirmed to the TV channel by a relative of one of the contract soldiers. Earlier, a video was published on social networks, presumably taken at a military base in Khankala.

The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict of the executive director of the Sheremetyevo pilots' union Alexei Shlyapnikov, the vice-president of the union Valery Pimoshenko and the union member Sergei Knyshov, who were found guilty of grand theft. this TASS reports with reference to the press service of the court. “The verdict against Shlyapnikov, Knyshov and Pimoshenko was left unchanged, the defense’s appeals and the prosecutor’s submission were not satisfied,” the court clarified.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the prosecutor's office approved an indictment in the case of ten former employees of the Belorechensk educational colony, accused of beating students. Lawyers Alexander Popkov and Andrei Sabinin, who represent the interests of victims on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zona Prava,” reported this to Mediazona. The criminal case was sent to the Belorechensky District Court for consideration on the merits.

During the debate in the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor's office again requested 12 years in a maximum security colony for operative of the 26th police department Andrei Artemyev, who is accused of murdering Dmitry Demidov, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. for the same period The prosecutor asked at the debate in June, but after that, due to the defense’s request for an additional examination, the judicial investigation was resumed.

Law enforcement officers detained the head of the Center for Countering Extremism in Ingushetia, reports RIA Novosti's source in the region's law enforcement agencies. “Today the head of the Ingush Center for External Action, Khamkhoev, was detained. The arrest was carried out by employees of the republican department of the FSB Directorate and the central office of the Internal Security Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The verification period at the request of singer Philip Kirkorov regarding the leader of the French group Space Didier Marouani and lawyer Igor Trunov has been extended to 30 days. this TASS reports with reference to Kirkorov's press secretary Anton Korobkov-Zemlyansky.

Nine investigators from the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Novgorod Region sent a letter to the presidential administration and the central office of the Investigative Committee with a request to check the actions of the head of the regional department, Ekaterina Gilina. This was previously reported by Novgorod.ru and the Regnum agency; the signatories of the letter also confirmed this data to Meduza .

In clinic number 220 in the Presnensky district of Moscow, the elevator car broke. According to preliminary data, one person was injured in the fall, TASS reports , citing a source in the Moscow emergency services. The elevator car broke off on the eighth floor. The elevator did not fall into the shaft because the braking device was activated during the fall. The reasons for the incident have not been established. Currently, specialists are working to unblock the elevator.

The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow fined Memorial International 300 thousand rubles for refusing to register as a “foreign agent,” TASS reports . The organization was found guilty under Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code (violation of the procedure for the activities of a non-profit organization performing the functions of a foreign agent).

Neftekamsk resident Vener Mardamshin accused four local police officers of beating him with a rubber baton and torturing him with a stun gun. This was reported on the website of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, where Mardamshin applied for legal assistance. According to Mardamshin, the incident occurred on November 10. In the morning, four men grabbed him near his house, handcuffed him, put a bag over his head, put him in a car and took him to an unknown direction.

State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov submitted an application to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check an article about Chechen refugees published on Meduza for extremism. Life about this Milonov himself told , and his assistant Ilya Evstigneev confirmed this data to Meduza. We are talking about the article “When you return, we will kill you” by Meduza special correspondent Ilya Azar.

In Murmansk, the police opened a criminal case against employees of a collection agency who threatened a debtor and her minor child. The collectors are also suspected of planting a headless cat at the victim’s entrance, reports , citing the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. Interfax In September 2016, a woman contacted the police with a complaint about threats against her and her minor child.