The Babushkinsky Court of Moscow arrested until September 19 the general director of the Lavochkin Research and Production Association, Sergei Lemeshevsky, who is accused of fraud, reports . RIA Novosti The press service of the Moscow City Court reported that the head of the directorate of legal support for NGOs, Ekaterina Averyanova, was also arrested until September 19. The detention of Lemeshevsky and Averyanova became known today.

During the meeting of the UN Committee against Torture, the Russian delegation ignored the question of special rapporteur Claude Heller about reports of torture of the accused and a witness in the “Penza case,” a Mediazona correspondent reports. Heller asked to comment on information about the possible torture of those involved in this case, as well as the Azimov brothers, accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested until September 25 the former deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Sergei Shlyakov, accused of particularly large-scale fraud, reports . Interfax According to the investigation, Shlyakov promised for a bribe to help the former assistant to the head of the department and the former representative of the governor in the Federation Council from the Yaroslavl region, Yuri Udalov, obtain the position of governor of one of the regions.

The Moscow District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Vladimir, sentenced a foreigner to 2.5 years in a general regime colony, finding him guilty of justifying terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Vladimir Region Prosecutor’s Office. We are talking about a citizen of one of the neighboring countries born in 1991. As the court found, in 2017 he came to Moscow to work and began “actively” using the Internet.

The Supreme Court of Russia acquitted Soviet historian and dissident Pyotr Yakir, who was convicted of treason in 1945, Interfax reports , citing the court's press service. “Resolution of the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR dated February 10, 1945 and the determination of the Military Collegium of the USSR Armed Forces dated June 18, 1955 in relation to Yakir P.I. cancelled.

Public defender Andrei Krekov said that convicted oppositionist Sergei Mokhnatkin was being tortured in IK-21 in the Arkhangelsk region, Mokhnatkin’s friend Tatyana Pashkevich wrote on her Facebook. According to Pashkevich, Krekov visited the oppositionist in the colony and spoke about his deteriorating condition. The defense lawyer says that Mokhnatkin has been on a hunger strike for 12 days.

The Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee demanded that the regions immediately initiate criminal cases of torture in colonies and pre-trial detention centers, an informed source told Interfax. According to him, if FSIN employees act unreasonably, the main department of the Investigative Committee has instructed to initiate cases of abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code). There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

In Crimea, a case was opened against minor Seit-Umer Asanov for desecration of the Russian flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code), journalist Anton Naumlyuk wrote on his Facebook. As the journalist said, the case was opened on June 28. According to investigators, on the night of May 27-28, 2018, an “unidentified person” tore down the Russian flag near the building of the village council of the village of Kurskoye, Belogorsk district, and threw it into the toilet.

A witness in the Amesbury poisoning case, Josh Harris, described a photograph of a man suspected of involvement in the incident, RBC reports . The publication writes that Harris lived in the same dormitory as Dawn Sturges, who died after being poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent. “I was shown a photograph of a man in profile outside the John Baker House hostel, he has black hair, a beard and a mustache. He was wearing a leather jacket and was of European appearance.

In Serpukhov, near Moscow, after an internal inspection, four police officers were fired because they ignored appeals from local residents about a suspicious man on the playground, according to the website of the Moscow Region Ministry of Internal Affairs. We are talking about the deputy chief of the Serpukhov police, the head of the public order department, as well as the district police officer and his deputy. The city's police chief will be fired after he returns from vacation.

In Zelenograd, FSB officers came to search the self-proclaimed President of the USSR Sergei Taraskin in a case of extremism, RBC reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies and an interlocutor in the Zelenograd police. According to the publication, the search as part of the case of public calls for extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) was carried out by FSB military counterintelligence officers and employees of the Zelenograd Center “E”.

Prisoner Yevgeny Makarov, who was tortured by employees of the Yaroslavl IK-1, expressed fears for his life and health, reports with reference to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Yaroslavl Region, Sergei Baburkin. Interfax “I received an appeal from Evgeny Makarov, in which he expresses fears for his life and health in connection with the release of the torture video. He believes that he can be killed, presenting it as suicide.

The editors of the Russian Forbes magazine filed a statement with the prosecutor's office after they received the issue from the press and did not find text in it about the business of the Magomedov brothers. Two employees of the magazine told Vedomosti about this. The application was confirmed by acting editor-in-chief Nikolai Mazurin.

At an off-site hearing in St. Petersburg, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced eight alleged participants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, the reported . telegram channel of the joint press service of St. Petersburg The court found them guilty of participating in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

A case has been opened against the deputy head of the security department of Kaliningrad IK-9, Davron Khakimov, for abuse of office with the use of violence (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Natalya Lyutaya, who represents the interests of the victim on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.