Photo: Kasparov.ru The Tver District Court postponed a meeting on December 13 in the case of organizing the activities of the extremist “Army of the will of the people” because of the claims to the Order of the Lawyer Nikolai Kuryanovich, who submits Valery Parfenov in court.

The defense of the artist Pyotr Pavlensky filed a complaint with the ECHR against the verdict in the case of setting fire to a door in the FSB building on Lubyanka as part of the “Threat” action. As the Vedomosti newspaper writes on December 13, citing Pavlensky’s lawyer Irina Khrunova, the defense complained of violation of freedom of speech and political persecution.

On December 13, the Kiev District Court of Simferopol granted the request of the FSB investigator to interrogate lawyer Nikolai Polozov, who defends Ilmi Umerov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. A lawyer must testify in his client's case as a witness. Polozov wrote about this on Facebook.

On December 12, the Razdolnensky District Court of Crimea issued a decision to arrest pro-Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh for 30 days. This was reported by the Crimean Human Rights Group. The prosecution, insisting on the arrest of Balukh, motivated this by the fact that he did not renounce Ukrainian citizenship and has a passport of Ukraine.

Ildar Dadin, sentenced to imprisonment on charges of repeated violations at public events, was transported from a Karelian colony to pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Vologda. This is stated in his letter dated December 4, which was published by Dadin’s wife Anastasia Zotova on December 13. In the letter, Dadin said that he was taken from Karelian IK-7 in Segezha, where he complained of torture , on the afternoon of Friday, December 2.

In Simferopol, the police detained Sergey Akimov in the evening of December 12, who held a single picket on Lenin Square, demanding to fulfill the Russian Constitution, as well as Ilya Bolshedvorov, who removed the action on the camera. According to the publication "Event of Crimea", the police considered that due to filming the picket is not single. The detainees were taken to the Central Police Department.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay compensation to Garry Kasparov, Lev Ponomarev, Alexander Averin and four other people detained during the "March of Dissent" in Moscow on November 24, 2007. This was reported on December 13 by the Internet edition of the Republic, citing a court decision .

On December 13, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg considered the case of Yana Turbova, who was detained the day before near the building of the Constitutional Court on Senate Square in St. Petersburg with a poster "Respect the Russian Constitution", and limited herself to issuing an oral warning. Turbova was released in the courtroom. This was reported to OVD-Info by activist Olga Smirnova.

Yana Turbova, who was detained on the Day of the Russian Constitution on December 12 near the building of the Constitutional Court on Senate Square in St. Petersburg with a poster “Respect the Russian Constitution”, was brought to court on the morning of December 13 after a night in the 1st police department of the Admiralteisky district. She told OVD-Info that she was waiting for the court hearing.

Tomsk video blogger Alexander Sidorov, who was beaten in Makhachkala in early December after a one-man picket against homophobia, filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office about police inaction. This was reported to OVD-Info in the Russian LGBT Network. After the rally was over, a man in a balaclava approached Sidorov, asked if he had led a picket, and started beating him. Police officers who were at the scene did not arrest the attacker.

All those detained on December 12 near the White House in Moscow at a rally dedicated to Constitution Day were released from the Presnensky police station. They drew up protocols on the violation by a participant of a public event of the procedure for holding it - under the fifth part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. At the same time, police officers refused to issue copies of the protocols, inviting the detainees to return for documents the next day.

Nine people who were earlier detained at the White House in Moscow for actions on the Day of the Russian Constitution left the Presnensky police department after drawing up protocols on violation of the procedure for holding a public event (under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Ildar Dadin. Photo: OVD-info OVD-info publishes an excerpt from a letter that his wife Anastasia Zotova received from Ildar Dadina. It follows from the text that he wrote it on December 4, being in pre-trial detention center-2 of the Vologda region, where he was transported from IK-7 Karelia. Where he is at the moment is still unknown.