Valentin Sokolov, a civil activist from Kolomna, charged with inciting hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code) for posts on social networks, was sentenced to one and a half years in prison. He was taken into custody in the hall of the Resurrection City Court. about this on Facebook Activist Vyacheslav Yegorov writes with reference to Sokolov's wife.

In Orel, police detained two underage members of the Oryol branch of the Vesna movement while they were posting leaflets on Lenin Square. The teenagers were taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the city of Orel, they were visited by human rights activist Dmitry Krayukhin, he has a power of attorney for one of the detainees. about this on Facebook Krayukhin's colleague Veronika Katkova writes . The protocol of delivery to the activists was not drawn up.

The Moscow City Court confirmed the legality of the fine of Mikhail Stepants, who was detained for violating the rules for participating in the rally on June 12. The peculiarity of the contested process was that the policeman who detained Stepanets stubbornly pointed not to the detainee, but to his lawyer Sergei Sharov-Delaunay. This was reported to OVD-Info by Mikhail Stepanets himself.

Daniil Gogolev, a volunteer from the campaign headquarters of Alexei Navalny from Novorossiysk, together with the Memorial Human Rights Center, within the framework of the Human Rights Incubator project , sent a complaint to the ECHR about compulsory treatment in a narcological dispensary and about the conditions of detention in a cell for administrative detainees. This was reported to OVD-Info by Tatyana Glushkova, a lawyer for Memorial Human Rights Center.

In Murmansk, at about 5:30 p.m., police detained two underage volunteers from the headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny. Activists put up leaflets about the action "strike of voters". Violetta Grudina, the coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, reported this to OVD-Info by phone on the hotline. The teenagers were taken to police station No.

Volunteers of the Vladivostok headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny were detained by the police. Two young people posted leaflets about the "voters' strike" action. about this with reference to the lawyer of the local headquarters of Navalny, Polina Sidelnikova. wrote Mediazona Minor Tatyana Khardina and Vasily Kuzmina were detained at the Ussuri cinema at about 17:00 (local time) and taken to the police, allegedly to check their documents.

Subscribed sheet that students / Photos from the page of Oksana Borisova on Facebook Students of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University said that they are forced to collect signatures for nomination of Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. About this on her Facebook page was written by a member of the Youth College under the governor of St. Petersburg Oksana Borisova.

On January 12, the Supreme Court of Tatarstan recognized the decision of the Zelenodolsk Executive Committee to ban the festival "Own Land" as legal. The festival itself was to be held in June 2017 on the banks of the Volga. about this Writes "Idel. Realities". The Supreme Court overturned the decision of the Zelenodolsk city court dated November 3, 2017, which declared the ban on the festival illegal.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated the complaint of Tatar public figure and human rights activist Rafis Kashapov. He was sentenced to three years in prison for calls to violate the territorial integrity of Russia (Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code) and inciting national hatred (Part 1 of Article 282). This was reported to OVD-Info by Damir Gainutdinov, a lawyer for the International Human Rights Group “Agora”.

The Morgaushsky District Court of the Chuvash Republic found 11 people guilty of organizing a gathering of residents of the village of Yunga on September 16, 2017, at which the construction of a base cell tower of the MTS company near the village was discussed. The court considered the gathering a public action.

The Feodosia City Court fined two participants in single-person pickets against the persecution of Crimean Tatars, Enver Mustafayev and Rustem Mustafayev, 10,000 rubles. This is stated on the Facebook of "Crimean Solidarity". The men were accused of violating the procedure for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Former member of the Kursk Regional Duma and editor-in-chief of the People's Journalist newspaper Olga Li appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a complaint about the unfair decision of the Russian court. In 2017, Li was fined ninety thousand rubles for slandering a judge. about this with reference to the lawyer of the Agora International Human Rights Group Damir Gainutdinov.

The Tomsk mayor's office refused to approve a picket against corruption in the prosecutor's office, which local civil activists wanted to hold in front of the building of the department. It is reported by Siberia. Realities" with reference to Galina Shergina.

The Razdolnensky district court in Crimea refused to allow the lawyers of pro-Ukrainian activist Vladimir Balukh to investigate who and where the ammunition from the Barnaul Cartridge Plant, which was allegedly found in the attic of his house, was sent. About this “Crimea. Realities." reports According to the publication, lawyers filed a petition asking the court to send a request to the cartridge factory. The judge rejected the petition because it was not submitted in writing.