In St. Petersburg, the public defender Sergei Ovchinnikov is not allowed into police station No. He told OVD-Info about this. “The detainees petitioned to let me in. Thus, their right to protection is violated,” says Sergey Ovchinnikov. He has been standing at the police station for about three hours. The arrest itself was about five hours ago.

Judge of World Court No. 199 in Kuntsevo fined Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina 400,000 rubles for evading compulsory work, writes Mediazona. Two protocols were drawn up against Alyokhina under the article on evasion of administrative punishment (Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). One protocol - for failure to comply with the punishment after the action with paper airplanes. Then she was assigned 100 hours of compulsory work.

The lawsuit will begin to be considered on July 11 in the 242nd court of the Nagatinsky Zaton district. This unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a request to compensate for the damage only to Sergey Udaltsov, Leonid Razvoszhaev, Ilya Gushchin, Elena Kokhtareva, Alexander Margolin and Alexei Gaskarov. There is a text of the statement of claim at the disposal of the ATS .

Photo: Olga Smirnova In St. Petersburg on the University Embankment, the police detained eight people during the picket in support of the director Oleg Sentsov, who holds a hunger strike in the colony for 58 days. This was announced by the OTD-Info by Vladimir Shipitsyn, one of the detainees. Olga Smirnova, Marianna Khanukova and Elena Grigoryeva are in the police department No. 16. Vladimir Shipitsyn and Alexei Arkhipov - in the department No. 60.

The transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District is going to recover from the defendants in the Bolotnaya case the cost of rubber batons and walkie-talkies lost during the riots on May 6, 2012. This was announced on Facebook by the leader of the Left Front and one of the former convicts in the Bolotnaya case, Sergei Udaltsov.

The Kirovsky District Court of the city of Kemerovo appointed blogger Mikhail Alferov 160 hours of compulsory work for a video about a rally against deputy Aman Tuleyev, who had been the governor of the region for more than 20 years. The blogger himself announced the decision of the OVD-Info court. At the hearing, Alferov challenged the judge and made several motions. The judge rejected them.

In Torzhok on July 8, a magistrate arrested the Belarusian anarchist Artem Markin, who was detained at the Pryamukhin Readings conference, for three days. This was reported by the lawyer of OVD-Info and the Human Rights Center “Memorial” Konstanin Markin. Artem Markin was found guilty of consuming narcotic substances (Part 1 of Article 6.9 of the Administrative Code). He refused a medical examination.

In court district No. 1 of the Tsivilsky district of Chuvashia, Anton Kravchenko, coordinator of the regional branch of Open Russia, was fined five thousand rubles. It is reported by "Idel. Realii” with reference to his lawyer and lawyer of “Pravozashchita” Elza Nisanbekova. At the trial, which lasted no more than 15 minutes, Kravchenko was found guilty under Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization).

In Moscow, bailiffs detained Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina due to non-execution of a court decision on compulsory work. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to its correspondent. Alyokhina was detained after a meeting in the Izmailovsky District Court on the suit of the Nizhny Novgorod IK-2 against Alyokhina and the editors of the Sobesednik.

Moscow resident Yelena Kozlova was placed in a drug dispensary on July 1 after a solitary picket in support of political prisoners. She herself informed OVD-Info about this. Kozlova stood in a solo picket on Red Square with posters "Freedom to Oleg Sentsov" and "Putin is a scumbag." Law enforcement officers detained her and took her to the police department in the Kitay-gorod district. In the department, Kozlova, according to her, was called “stupid scum”, beaten and handcuffed to a bench.

In Naro-Fominsk, police detained journalist and environmental activist Denis Styazhkin as he was getting off the train. This was reported to OVD-Info by civil activist Sergei Ozhich. Styazhkin is currently at the local police station. Ozic said that, according to the police, a crime had occurred at the station, and the journalist had received an orientation.

In the Moscow region, at the Selyatino station, the police detained Tatyana Pavlova, an eco-activist and deputy of the Council of Deputies of Selyatino of the third convocation. She herself wrote about this on Facebook. Police officers explained the detention by the fact that Pavlova looked like a woman who had committed a robbery. The activist is taken to the police station. UPD 12:25 Pavlova was on the train to meet with other environmental activists.

Arrested Crimean Tatar human rights activist Emir-Usein Kuku, accused in the Yalta case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was taken away from SIZO-4 in the Rostov Region. This was reported to OVD-Info by his lawyer Sergei Loktev. Loktev said that he had come to the pre-trial detention center to visit his client, but he was denied admission on the pretext that Kuka had been taken away. Now his whereabouts are unknown.

In Vladivostok, the Center for Combating Extremism is persecuting four volunteers from the headquarters of Alexei Navalny. This is reported by Siberia. Realii” with reference to the headquarters coordinator Vladimir Dubovsky. It is noted that, trying to get into the apartments of volunteers, the operatives introduce themselves as employees of the criminal investigation department.

Valery Abramkin / Photo: Archive of the International Memorial In connection with the ongoing hunger strikes of the political prisoners, we publish a fragment from the letters of human rights activist Valery Abramkin, dedicated to a hunger strike in Butyrka prison in 1980. The “shreds”, which Abramkin secretly handed over to his wife on leaflets from cigarette paper, were deciphered by his daughter Katya.