Correctional colony No. 15 in Angarsk. Photo: Kirill Shipitsin / RIA Novosti In Irkutsk, in the case of torture, the prisoners detained the head of the operational department of the pre-trial detention center-1 and the recently dismissed head of IK-6 Vladimir Gorelov. The FSIN already reports nine criminal cases against colonies and prisoners who, at their direction, tortured other convicts-so they knocked out the confessions in the case of last year’s riots in IK-15 in Angarsk.

The first defendant in the case of “blocking roads” at a protest rally in Moscow on January 23, libertarian Gleb Maryasov, was charged on March 2, the activist’s lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov told Mediazona.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for abuse of power (Article 286 of the Criminal Code) after the detainee’s story about the beating in the building of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Penza region, reports Interfax . At the same time, Vyunov’s lawyer indicated in his petition that the torture took place in the building of Center “E” on Lunacharsky Street.

employees Facebook discovered on the social network Instagram press release , which belongs to the company, a network of accounts that were engaged in distracting users from protests in support of politician Alexei Navalny in January and intimidating those who were going to participate in them, Meduza writes, citing a Facebook .

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow took into custody a participant in the action on January 31 and a member of the precinct election commission, Roman Pichuzhin, who became a suspect in a criminal case for the use of violence against a riot police officer (part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code), reports OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, collaborating with the project. Pichuzhin was arrested until April 20.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 62-year-old blacksmith from Crimea Oleg Prikhodko to five years in a maximum security colony with one year in prison. He was also fined 110 thousand rubles. The Crimean citizen was accused of preparing terrorist attacks in Saki and Lvov. this with reference to the press service of the court. reported Interfax Initially, the blacksmith was accused under articles about and, in December 2019 an article about.

Ilya Azar. Photo: George Malet Ilya Azar. Photo: George Malet The judge of the Tver court Olga Zatomskaya appointed 15 days of arrest to the journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar, the Apology of Protest reports . The journalist was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of public events (part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Politician Alexei Navalny is in pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the Vladimir region, he said in a letter published on the oppositionist’s Instagram account. “When a prisoner next to the stage is told: “Vladimir region,” he becomes sad, such is the reputation of local institutions. But I’m fine, there’s even a horizontal bar in the exercise yard,” Navalny said. The politician’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev clarifies that Navalny is in a quarantine cell, along with two other people.

In the Usolsky City Court of the Irkutsk Region, the state prosecution asked to sentence Investigative Committee employee Sergei Lysykh, accused of falsifying materials in a criminal case of torture, to 4 years in a general regime colony. Fund representative Oleg Novikov told Mediazona about this.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 150 thousand rubles on the special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta and municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district, Ilya Azar, under the article on repeated violation of the rules of holding a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This is reported by “Apology of Protest” The court will also consider Azar's second administrative case under this article.

In Penza, 46-year-old detainee Vitaly Vyunov said that in the building of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Penza region, operatives tortured him for several hours, stripping him naked and demanding to confess in a case of extortion. This was reported to Mediazona in the Law Zone. The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Penza Region began an investigation.

The Dmitrov City Court of the Moscow Region closed the case against the co-owner of Clean Line Gagik Evoyan for the murder of five deer and imposed a court fine of 100 thousand rubles on him. This is reported on the court's website. As the court established, at night Evoyan took a carbine and at least seven hunting cartridges and went with an acquaintance named Karabekyan to the forest in Ramenskoye. There he shot three female and two male red deer.

The governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov opened the monument to the Sad Angel, dedicated to the dead medical workers, a day earlier and without the participation of the initiators of the creation of the sculpture. The head of the city took off the white fabric from the angel and laid flowers to him. This was reported by Fontanka.

At a meeting of the FSB board, the Russian President traditionally reports that the special service annually exposes hundreds of foreign intelligence officers and their agents - over the past ten years, have already reported about 3.5 thousand exposed. The Mediazona compared these statements with the statistics of convicts for espionage and gosmen and found that most of them obviously do not reach the court - decades are pronounced ten times less.

The Doctors' Alliance trade union was recognized as a “foreign agent,” Interfax reports , citing the press service of the Ministry of Justice. The department added that during the inspection, “in relation to the organization, facts of repeated receipt of foreign funding, as well as carrying out political activities, were established.” The organization's press secretary, Alexandra Zakharova , told Open Media that they had not received any notification about this.