The Samara District Court did not agree with the police officers who drew up a protocol on administrative offenses against the participants of the “Day of Silence” on April 11, writes . Samara lawyer Oksana Berezovskaya The Day of Silence is an international action against the silence on the problem of homophobia. In Samara, its participants sealed their mouths with adhesive tape. The police described it as "the use of camouflage to make identification difficult" at a public event.

The judge of the Khimki city court, Yulia Alekseeva, sentenced Alla Chernysheva, editor-in-chief of the Ecodefense of the Moscow Region website, to a fine of 35,000 rubles, reports Ecmo.ru . She held a solo picket at the gates of an illegal construction site on April 8 this year. Chernysheva was found guilty of holding an uncoordinated rally with obstructing the movement of vehicles (although she was standing at the closed gate).

The European Court of Human Rights on July 17 recognized the imprisonment of the accused in a metal cage during the trial as degrading. This practice is contrary to the third article of the European Convention, which prohibits torture, according to the final decision of the Grand Chamber of the ECtHR in the case of Svinarenko and Slyadnev v. Russia.

Well-known Moscow human rights activists Andrei Babushkin and Valery Borshchev, Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin and Krasnodar public figures Mikhail Savva, Andrei Rudomakha and Semyon Simonov appealed to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko with a request to prevent the transfer of Evgeny Vitishko to a general regime colony (OVD- Info).

Photo: (c) Evgeny Feldman, new newspaper Who lives in the house Russian opposition are increasingly forced to sit at home. The first to get under house arrest was Sergey Udaltsov back in February 2013 - since then, about him and his “Left Front” movement, almost nothing was heard. A year later, in February 2014, the apartment of Alexei Navalny turned into his personal prison.

"Swamp business" Mikhail Kosenko left the hospital "Russian Planet", July 11 : “The figurant of the Bolotnaya case, Mikhail Kosenko, who was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment, left the hospital by court order, Interfax reports . On July 2, the Chekhov Court of the Moscow Region decided to transfer Kosenko from inpatient to outpatient treatment, the prosecutor's office did not challenge the court's decision. This means that now Kosenko will be at home.