The activists of the movement of hostels in Moscow, who were detained earlier near the city hall, were released from the Tverskoy police department after drawing up protocols under article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Activists of the movement of hostels in Moscow Alexander Zimbovsky, Alexander Makarov and Viktor Tunev, who were detained near the city hall building, were taken to the Tverskoye police department. UPD (20:16): Alexander Zimbovsky was released from the Tverskoy police department after the execution of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. The rest of the detainees are still in the police department.

Activists of the Moscow dormitory movement came to the Moscow City Hall for a reception and were detained. Alexander Zimbovsky, Alexander Makarov and Viktor Tunev are in a paddy wagon near the city hall.

The Moscow Helsinki Group is holding a series of webinars (Internet seminars) to share experience and methods of public control over the activities of the police. Webinar participants get access to methodological materials. The next webinar will be held on March 20 from 17:00 to 19:00. It will be devoted to the topic "Control over the activities of the police without contact with the police." The webinar will be hosted by Igor Sazhin, Chairman of the Komi Human Rights Commission "Memorial".

Eduard Mansurov was detained during a rally near the Olympic clock. This is reported by the website of "Vecherniye Vedomosti" with reference to the blog of the head of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Ivachev. Mansurov was taken to OP No. 5 for placing a banner on the Olympic watch.

What is the situation with openness in Russian courts today? Russian courts quite often, especially jury trials, are closed without justification, and there are a number of ECHR decisions that say that this is unlawful. Often the formal reason is to ensure the safety of victims. And they didn’t even ask for anything like that. I have encountered this in jury trials.

According to a press release on the party's website, "unidentified supporters" of The Other Russia broke into the embassy building in Leontievsky Lane and refused to leave it. put forward a demand for holding referendums on self-determination in the regions of Eastern and Southern Ukraine. Information about how exactly the action took place, how many people participated in it and how many were detained, is not contained in the press release.

practice Moscow police promised to prevent a collision between two antagonistic marches “Novaya Gazeta”, March 14 : “The organizers of the “Peace March” (Petr Tsarkov) and the “March of Brotherhood and Civil Resistance” (Sergei Kurginyan “Essence of Time”) decided on the issue of crossing the action routes with the Moscow authorities.

We, people who are professionally engaged in the right, are forced to draw the attention of our colleagues and the public to mass detentions in February - March 2014 of our fellow citizens. These detentions occurred on the days of sentences on the so -called The swamp case and approval by the Council of the Federation of using the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, as well as give them legal and moral assessment.

Photo: Alexander Baroshin These days, dozens, if not hundreds of people, it has the opportunity to feel how the domestic judicial system works on their own skin, and encounter flagrant violations. The detainees on inconsistent shares discover that no one is in a hurry and often does not want to tell them the most necessary information - where and when they have a court.

The broadcast of the sentence of the verdict in the “case of eight” in the Zamoskvoretsky court. Photo: Alexander Baroshin Lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky, who defended the “eight” case, shares considerations about the problem of publicity and openness of the vessels. What is the situation with openness in Russian courts today? Russian courts quite often, especially the jury courts, close unreasonably, and there are a number of decisions of the ECHR that states that it is unlawful.