On October 20, the first deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov, was interrogated by the FSB, where he was familiarized with the results of two examinations: linguistic and forensic psychiatric. Umerov writes about this on his Facebook page. The fact that Ilmi Umerov was summoned for questioning became known on the same day.

Igor Nagavkin, head of the Volgograd branch of the For Human Rights movement, who was arrested on charges of theft, announced on October 19 that he was on a hunger strike. This happened during a meeting of the regional court, which recognized his arrest as legal, reports . the "Caucasian Knot" The reason for the hunger strike, which Nagavkin, in his own words, began on October 12, was the lack of qualified medical care in the pre-trial detention center.

On October 20, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia partially satisfied the complaint of Ella Kesaeva, head of the Voice of Beslan committee, who was detained on September 1 during a public action. Kesaeva 20 hours of corrective labor were replaced with a fine of 10,000 rubles. about this The "Caucasian Knot" writes with reference to its own correspondent. The court reclassified the actions of the activist from Part 2 of Art.

Seven people suspected of involvement in the Tablighi Jamaat religious movement have been detained in Tatarstan. This is stated in the message of the Interfax agency with reference to the republican department of the FSB. A case has been opened on the activities of an extremist organization. According to the agency, the case contains Part 2 of Art.

On October 19, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow found Elena Sinelnikova, a participant in the “May Day of Progressive Left,” guilty of violating the established procedure for holding a public rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) and imposed the maximum fine of 20,000 rubles. Nikolai Kavkazsky, a lawyer for the LGBT organization Stimul, told OVD-Info about this over the phone.

On October 20, a St. Petersburg court dismissed an administrative case against Fontanka correspondent Denis Korotkov, who allegedly obtained a ballot paper illegally during the 2016 elections. about this writes The Fontanka Internet newspaper . The case was dismissed due to lack of corpus delicti. The protocol was drawn up for illegal receipt of a ballot paper (Article 5.22 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The first deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Ilmi Umerov, was summoned for questioning at the local FSB office at 15:00 on October 20. The head of the Central Election Commission of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, Zair Smedlyaev, writes about this on his Facebook page. “I wasn’t invited for a month and a half. The investigator did not say the topic,” Umerov himself commented on the information.

On October 20, Judge Orekhova of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Irina Yatsenko 15,000 rubles for participating in a rally in memory of the “demonstration of the seven” in 1968 against the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Yatsenko was informed about this by OVD-Info. On August 25, 2016, several people stood on Red Square with posters "For your freedom and ours" in memory of a similar demonstration in 1968.

Photo: Semyon Katz/meduza On October 19, 2015, the Ryazan District Court of the Ryazan Region granted a petition for the parole Alexei Polikhovich, convicted of riots, allegedly taking place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. After 10 days, he was released, having served in prison for three years and three months from 3.5 years.