Detained on the evening of January 24, the nationalist and one of the organizers of the Russian March, Dmitry Melash, is left for the night in the police department, a trial is planned tomorrow. This was reported by Yuriy Gorsky on the OVD-Info hotline. According to him, Melash was offered to sign the protocol under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials), but he refused.

The lawyer of Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Balukh, who is accused of illegal possession of ammunition (part 1 of article 222 of the Criminal Code) and is in a pre-trial detention center, said that his client is facing pressure in the pre-trial detention center. This was reported on January 24 on the website of the Crimean Human Rights Group (CHG).

Dmitry Melash, who was visited by the police yesterday, was detained at the entrance of the house where he lives when he was returning from work. This was reported by Yuriy Gorsky on the OVD-Info hotline. According to Gorsky, today Melash could not appear at the police department on the agenda in connection with an administrative case under Art.

Ildar Dadin’s wife Anastasia Zotova, journalists Alexandra Ageeva and Sergei Aibinder, as well as St. Petersburg activist Igor Andreev, also known as Stepanych, detained near the building of the Constitutional Court, have been released.

After leaving the building of the Constitutional Court in St. Petersburg, several activists were detained: Anastasia Zotova, journalists Alexandra Ageeva and Sergei Ainbinder. Anastasia Zotova reported this by phone. In addition, activist Stepanych, detained for picketing, is in the same station. OVD-InfoActivists were detained for jaywalking when they tried to help a single picketer communicate with the police.

On January 24 in Moscow, several people were detained during single pickets in support of convicted activist Ildar Dadin. The picket is timed to coincide with the date of consideration by the Constitutional Court of Dadin’s complaint against Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code. One of the picket participants reported this by phone. OVD-InfoAt the moment, four have been detained: Kirill Gilerov, Kamil Sukaev, Olga Mazurova, Maria Ryabikova. All of them were taken to the Tverskoy police station.

On January 24, the Constitutional Court considers the complaint of convicted Ildar Dadin about checking the constitutionality of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code on repeated violations of the law on freedom of assembly. The meeting is broadcast on the CC website.

Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov was released from the business center. As eyewitnesses told OVD-Info, Idrisov parked his car in the parking lot next to the Litera business center. Right after that, the security guards of the center came out and forcibly dragged the human rights activist into the building, they also called the police. After the intervention of lawyers, Idrisov was immediately released.

Those who signed up in advance to attend today's court session at the Constitutional Court in St. Petersburg to check the constitutionality of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code were refused to be allowed into the process. Eyewitnesses report this to OVD-Info by phone. Of the activists, only a few people were allowed in: Anastasia Zotova and a few other activists. Some were let through only because they registered separately as media representatives.

Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov, who came to St. Petersburg to attend a session of the Constitutional Court, is blocked in the Litera business center, the center is located next to the court building. Presumably, Idrisov is accused of accidentally entering a private area in a business center. Eyewitnesses reported this to OVD-Info by phone.

Experts from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) and the Prosecutor General's Office sent negative reviews to the Constitutional Court regarding Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code regarding repeated violations at rallies. Kommersant is about this. reports The review was requested by the Constitutional Court, which on January 24 will consider the complaint of Ildar Dadin, the first person convicted in Russia for repeated violations of the rules for holding public events.

Defenders of engineer from Tver Andrei Bubeev appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a complaint against the decision of the Russian courts. This is reported by the publication "Kommersant" with reference to representatives of the defense of the International Human Rights Group "Agora". In 2016, the Zavolzhsky District Court of Tver sentenced Bubeev to two years and three months in prison.

Lawyer Marina Verigina, who advised the defenders of the Korfyanka park during protests against the construction of the temple in the north-east of Moscow, interrogated in the case of insulting the feelings of believers (Article 148 of the Criminal Code). Verigina told OVD-info on the phone about this.