The Lomonosovsky District Court in the Leningrad Region canceled four fines in a total amount of 12 thousand rubles to the seller from the village of Russian-Vysotskoy Dmitry Skurikhin, who posted opposition posters at his own store. This was reported by the ATS-INFO was informed by the lawyer of the Open Russia, Anastasia Burakova, who represented the interests of Skurikhina in court.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld the decision of the Zelenodolsk city court, which recognized as illegal the refusal of the Osinovsky rural settlement to coordinate a rally against the construction of an incinerator. It is reported by "Idel. Realities".

In Moscow, police officers came to the “Order of Words” bookstore, where an event in support of human rights activist Oyub Titiev was to be held. Vasily Petrov reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. On the eve of Titiev’s birthday, the volunteer center of the Sakharov Center announced an event during which everyone can send letters and postcards to the human rights activist. According to Petrov, the police asked the store manager questions about the action and its goals.

Human rights activist Zoya Svetova met with convicted film director Oleg Sentsov in colony No. 8 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. this She announced on her Facebook page. In an interview with Novaya Gazeta, Svetova spoke about the details of the meeting with the director: “Oleg has changed a lot since the beginning of the hunger strike. His sister Natasha Kaplan wrote after a visit that he had aged because he had wrinkles from weight loss.

In Moscow, the coordinator of the Left Front and the confidant of the candidate for mayor Vadim Kumin Sergey Udaltsov was detained. This was tweeted by his wife Anastasia Udaltsova. According to her, the man is being taken to the Krasnoselskoye police department, the materials are compiled because of a rally against raising the retirement age, which took place in Moscow on July 28. UPD 16:50 Sergei Udaltsov is going to be taken to the Meshchansky District Court, .

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, a defendant in the case of the terrorist community “Network,” was brought to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Nizhny Novgorod. His lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov wrote about this on Facebook. In mid-July, it became known that Filinkov and another person involved in the Network case, Yulia Boyarshinov, were going to be transferred to Penza for investigative actions.

The Federal Penitentiary Service allowed human rights activist Zoya Svetova to visit director Oleg Sentsov in colony No. 8 of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. about this on Twitter . wrote Mikhail Fedotov, Chairman of the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, Sentsov's lawyer Dmitry Dinze said on August 9 that the director is going through a third health crisis.

Lidia Bainova (left) / photo from a personal page on VKontakte A resident of Khakassia, Lydia Bainov, was included in the list of extremists of Rosfinmonitoring due to a criminal case for publication on VKontakte, the woman was blocked. This was reported by the international human rights group "Agora".

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol extended the arrest of blogger and activist of the Crimean Solidarity movement Nariman Memedeminov for two months. Crimea writes about this. Realities" with reference to lawyer Edem Semedlyaev, who represents the interests of the arrested person. Memedeminov is accused of public calls for terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). As “Crimea” clarifies .

In Novosibirsk, the Investigative Committee completed the investigation of a criminal case against three supporters of the Artpodgotovka movement. The case will be referred to the court, they write on the website of the department.

Illustration: Lyuba Krutenko for OWD-Info Preventive conversation is not much different from a simple conversation. In theory, it should explain to you what you cannot do. Unlike interrogation, the conversation is not documented in any way, and no one obliges you to go to it. The police have a tradition - to come after a protest to their participants and invite “talk”. Sometimes this is a simple formality, sometimes a way to get the necessary information.

Russian teenagers have shown the whole society an example of adult civil behavior, and call them you! - after this it is impossible for children. The law thinks differently: the state considers everyone under 18 years of age to be a “minor.” For details about what will happen to you if you are under 18 and you are detained at a protest, read our instructions .

If you were detained at a protest, then soon you will get to know the judicial system closely. If you are an informed person, then you know that you should not expect good from her: your chances of an acquittal decision are extremely small. However, this does not mean that the court should simply be ignored - because the judicial system has already contacted you. Under these conditions, it is in your personal interest to minimize your damage, try to win and get not at all useless experience.

Illustration: Lyuba Krutenko for OWD-Info The first rule of the participant in the street action is to try to avoid detention. If this nevertheless happened, the second rule is to maintain icy calm. And the third rule is to know what exactly awaits you and how to defend your rights. It is the knowledge of the laws and the sequence of events that awaits you in the police department that will help remain calm. And it is about this that is our legal instruction .

Illustration: Lyuba Krutenko for OWD-Info It is not easy to get a fine of 10-20 thousand rubles for participating in the shares, and it is also not easy to pay for it. If you were detained at a rally, the court is most likely to wait ahead of you. First, this is a court of first instance that appoints a fine or terminates the case. Then - the court of appeal, if you appeal the decision of the first court.