The St. Petersburg Garrison Military Court rejected the complaint of lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov against the decision of the Investigative Committee to refuse to initiate a criminal case for the torture of anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov. This was reported by the press service of the human rights organization “Zone of Law”, with which the lawyer cooperates. Filinkov's representative will appeal this decision.

The Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced the former head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Stravinskas. He was sentenced to 2 years of suspended imprisonment and released from punishment under an amnesty, reports . Crime Chronicle According to the publication, the charge against Stravinskas was reclassified from Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official powers causing grave consequences) to Part 1 of the same article.

In Reutov, on the way to an open meeting with the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, journalist Evgeny Kurakin was detained, the journalist himself told OVD-Info. Kurakin later told OVD-Info that he was arrested for 15 days. According to the Activatika website, the Reutov City Court made this decision, finding him guilty of an offense under Article 6.1.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (beatings).

Channel One did not air an interview between journalist Vladimir Pozner and the leader of the unregistered Other Russia party, Eduard Limonov, told Znak.com . Pozner himself “I planned Limonov [to air] on June 4, but there was still a program with conductor [Theodor] Currentzis in stock. I was asked to give it earlier, and I was absolutely convinced that Limonov would be released on June 18, and it was announced. At the last moment the program was canceled.

New investigative actions are being carried out with those convicted in the murder case of politician Boris Nemtsov, despite the fact that they have already been sentenced. Lawyer Roza Magomedova told Echo of Moscow about this. Earlier, Rosbalt, without naming sources of information, reported that the Investigative Committee and the FSB intend to find out where the weapon used to kill the politician is and identify the customer.

The Investigative Committee brought new charges of bribery worth millions of rubles to the former governor of the Sakhalin region, Alexander Khoroshavin, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Valentina Petrenko. “Former governor of the Sakhalin region Alexander Khoroshavin and his accomplices, who held high positions, are again accused of corruption crimes.

Photo: Evgeny Kashpirev / Kommersant The Plenum of the Supreme Court adopted a decision on offenses during public events. The document explains why it is necessary to coordinate mass shares even in a private territory and what arguments the authorities cannot use to refuse to conduct rallies. The decision was considered at the Plenum meeting on June 21 and finally approved five days later. Mediazona studied the resolution and talks about the most important points.

The Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk dismissed the administrative case against the organizer of the May Day “Monstration” Sofia Bazhenova, the protocol of which was rewritten three times, lawyer of the Public Verdict Foundation Svyatoslav Khromenkov told Mediazona. The first protocol was drawn up under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to comply with legal demands of the police).

The Federal Service for Supervision in Education has deprived the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) of accreditation. This follows from the corresponding order published on the department’s website.

The Constitutional Court declared illegal the ban on the adoption of children by people with HIV or hepatitis C. The decision was published attention to it . drew on the court’s website, and the head of the international human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, The court made a decision on the complaint of a family that was not allowed to identify the child. The applicant's sister, who was HIV-positive, gave birth to this child using artificial insemination.

The defense of oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev challenged all judges in Ingushetia and asked to transfer the activist’s case to any court outside the republic. The lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Andrei Sabinin, who represents the interests of the defendant together with lawyer Hedi Ibrieva, told Mediazona about this. As Sabinin said, the chairman of the Magassky District Court rejected the petition. The case began to be considered on its merits.

In Crimea, Raime Primova, the mother of Nuri Primova, who was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, went on a hunger strike, according to the Facebook page of the Crimean Solidarity association. Primova went on a hunger strike, demanding that her son be included in the exchange lists along with Oleg Sentsov, Alexander Kolchenko and other Ukrainian prisoners.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill on a new procedure for counting the time spent in pre-trial detention when imposing a sentence. for the document 395 deputies voted , two abstained. The new law equates a day spent in a pre-trial detention center to one and a half days in a general regime colony (educational colony) or two days in a settlement colony.

Employees of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod Region began an investigation due to complaints from six residents of the Vetluzhsky district about torture at the local police station, the Committee Against Torture reports . As Ruslan Moskvichev, a resident of the city of Vetluga, told human rights activists, in 2016, when he was not yet 18 years old, he was detained on suspicion of theft.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has received complaints from Open Russia activists detained in Vladivostok after the branch’s founding congress, according to the movement’s telegram channel. Complaints were filed by the chairman of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov, the movement's press secretary Natalya Gryaznevich, as well as activists from the Primorsky Territory Andrei Yarotsky, Maria Zinchenko and Vladimir Dubovsky.