A group of prisoners in a single cell-type facility in Yaroslavl correctional colony No. 8 went on a hunger strike, reports the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service. The department claims that the hunger strike involves convicts who have committed gross violations of the procedure for serving their sentences and are now demanding preferential conditions.

The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, who is currently in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, went on a hunger strike due to being denied access to elections in his district, TASS reports . As the agency was told by the public monitoring commission, Shestun is protesting against being prevented from participating in elections for the post of head of the Serpukhov region and obstacles in communicating with a lawyer.

The Ostankino District Court of Moscow extended the detention of three sisters accused of murdering their 57-year-old father (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) by 72 hours, a Mediazona correspondent reports. We are talking about three girls, 17, 18 and 19 years old. The meeting was held behind closed doors.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested a 17-year-old native of Chechnya, accused of attacking a policeman near the Slovak Embassy, reports . ​​the Moscow agency The young man will be in custody until September 27. The meeting was held behind closed doors, as the accused was a minor. On July 27, in the Tverskoy district of Moscow, a young man attacked policeman Sergei Nekrasov with a knife and wounded him. Two days later, the suspect was detained in the Moscow region.

The names of those involved in cases of espionage and treason may have disappeared from the case files in the information database of Moscow courts due to a technical glitch. Court press secretary Ulyana Solopova told Mediazona about this. “The absence of any information on the pages of the Unified Information Portal of the Moscow Courts of General Jurisdiction could be a technical failure; The reasons for the lack of information are currently being established,” Solopova said.

A visiting panel of judges of the Volga District Military Court sentenced 21 residents of Bashkiria; they were given sentences ranging from five to 24 years in prison for participating in the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia. this with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB.

In the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, the state prosecution asked to sentence former police officers Alexei Burulko and Nikolai Pervakov, who are accused of beating the coach of the Torpedo women's football club Faig Nagdaliev, to five years in prison, the Committee Against Torture reports . Former police officers are accused of exceeding their official powers with the use of violence (Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code).

In the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region, the accused was found dead in pre-trial detention center No. 2, reports Orsk.ru, without naming sources of information. Later, the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed to the publication that a dead man was found in the pre-trial detention center. According to Orsk.ru, he was 36 years old. Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service are conducting an inspection in the detention center.

A native of Chechnya, suspected of attacking a policeman near the Slovak embassy, ​​was found by his relatives and taken to the police, writes , citing friends of the young man’s family. Kavkaz.Realii Friends described him as “a very nervous and hot-tempered person.” Additional information is not provided in the publication's message. On July 27, a 17-year-old young man attacked policeman Sergei Nekrasov with a knife and wounded him in the Tverskoy district of Moscow.

Roskomnadzor reported on the first five years of application of the law, which allows you to block access to sites with pirated content at the request of the copyright holder. The corresponding article 15.2 (the procedure for limiting access to information distributed in violation of copyright and (or) related rights) of the Law “On Information” was introduced on August 1, 2013.

German authorities extradited to Russia the alleged organizer of cocaine deliveries from Argentina, Andrei Kovalchuk, told TASS. his lawyer According to the lawyer, Kovalchuk was charged with drug smuggling (Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code), and he is in the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center. The accused refused to testify. “He was brought in by plane on Friday, and to be honest, he’s in shock. Accompanied by four employees.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a case was opened against the former head of correctional colony No. 5 for embezzlement of property entrusted to him on a large scale using his official position (Part 3 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

Since the beginning of 2017, at least 125 people have left Chechnya due to persecution of LGBT people by local authorities, the Russian LGBT Network movement told Kommersant. “Among them are 49 people who were detained in Chechnya by security forces and interrogated. They were required to admit they were gay and provide information about their acquaintances. Of those who were detained, 37 people spoke of torture and being held in custody for three days to three weeks.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Krasnoyarsk declared illegal the decision of the district administration, which did not allow a grandmother with HIV to take custody of her grandson, whose mother died. Lawyer Vladimir Vasin, who collaborates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law,” told Mediazona about this.

The senior investigator for especially important cases under the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Konstantin Krivorotov, who investigated the case of thief in law Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molodoy), received the Order of Courage. The decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin was published on the legal information website. In addition, this investigator was investigating the terrorist attack on board A321 over the Sinai, adds TASS .