Kuban activist Viktor Chirikov, detained on the afternoon of December 24 in Krasnodar, was left under arrest overnight. OVD-Info was informed about this by his friends, whom he managed to contact from the police department. It is expected that at 8 am on Sunday, December 25, the Leninsky District Court of Krasnodar will consider his case regarding the action with the installation of a wooden cross on the monument to the founder of the Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, on Chekist Day on December 20.

Crimean Tatars Ayder Saledinov, Rustem Ismailov and Uzeyir Abdullayev, accused in the case of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization banned in Russia, on December 23 announced that they had been beaten by FSB officers during investigative actions. about this Writes on December 24, the online edition "Grani.ru" with reference to the message of the site "15 minutes".

Kuban activist Viktor Chirikov was detained on the afternoon of December 24 in Krasnodar. As Chirikov’s wife told the Voice of Kuban publication, his car was stopped by three cars with police officers and plainclothes operatives. It is unknown where Chirikov was taken. His car remained at the scene of arrest. At the time of writing, the activist’s phone number was unreachable. There was no official information about the reasons for the detention.

The defense of Alexei Navalny, the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, appealed to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe with a request to assist in the implementation of the decision of the ECtHR, which in February 2016 recognized the violation of the right of the oppositionist to a fair trial in the Kirovles case.

Hello! On December 21, the Day of Security Service Workers, eight civil activists were detained while walking around the center of Moscow. For a long time they were driven around Moscow in an unmarked van, then brought to the police department, where they took explanations from them and released them. In the evening in Krasnodar, a wooden cross appeared on the bust of the founder of the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky.