On August 23, the Rostov Regional Court upheld the decision to extend the arrest of Yan Sidorov, accused of attempted mass riots in Rostov on November 5, 2017. Vladimir Sidorov, the grandfather of the accused, spoke about this. OVD-InfoAugust 6 Leninsky District Court on August 6 suspended the accused for two months in custody.

The Supreme Court of Crimea left under arrest the defendants in the “case of Vedzhie Kashka” - Bekir Degermendzhi, Asan Chapukh, Kazin Ametov and Ruslan Trubach. This is stated on the Facebook of "Crimean Solidarity". The judge rejected the appeal of the defense, but reduced the term of detention of the Crimean Tatars by one day, until September 14, 2018. The defendants were present at the hearing via video link, together with their lawyer Edem Semedlyaev.

The Supreme Court of Crimea rejected the defense complaint and upheld the extension of the arrest of Crimean Tatar and blogger Nariman Memedeminov. The Crimean Solidarity movement writes about this on Facebook. Memedeminov is accused of public calls for terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). As “Crimea” clarifies . Realities,” the reason for the persecution was the videos that he published on his YouTube channel.

The judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, Yevgenia Nikolaeva, extended the arrest of Vladimir Ratnikov (Komarnitsky), leader of the nationalist Black Bloc, by three months and three days. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Armen Martirosyan, who represents the interests of the arrested person.

Lithuania issued a decision for long-term residence in the EU to activist Igor Stenin, who in Russia was sentenced to two years in prison due to a repost on VKontakte. Caucasian Knot reports this. Earlier, Stenin left Russia with his wife and son, fearing pressure on his loved ones from law enforcement officers.

In Kursk, the police detained a 16-year-old young man in a Navalny 2018 T-shirt, he reported this on the OVD-Info hotline. The police say that he needs to go to the department for an identity check. The detainee himself is sure that they want to take him to the police department because he went out into a public place in a T-shirt with Navalny. Where exactly the detention took place, the young man did not specify.

Everyone is guaranteed freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, including the right to profess, individually or together with others, any religion or not to profess any, to freely choose, have and disseminate religious and other beliefs and to act in accordance with them. Article 28 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation Russia vs. Jehovah's Witnesses: Retelling 23 criminal cases in 18 regions, 53 accused, 13 suspects.

In Mari El, the human rights organization "Man and the Law" announced the distortion of the court record of the meeting in the case of the lack of marking "foreign agent" on Facebook. This is reported by "Idel. Realities". On August 13, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola fined the organization 300,000 rubles, finding it guilty of distributing materials by a foreign agent without proper marking (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Investigative Committee is checking the posts of Omsk feminist Lyubvi Kalugina on the VKontakte social network. this to The girl reported the information and analytical center "Owl". In publications, they are looking for signs of inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the basis of sex (Article 282 of the Criminal Code). According to Kalugina herself, we are talking about 12 posts published from 2013 to 2016.

The Moscow City Court on the night of August 23 extended for a month to arrest the political technologist Peter Miloserdov, accused of creating an extremist community (part 1 of article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the lawyer Matvey Zen. According to him, the meeting was held in the convoy. During the meeting, Miloserov lay on a stretcher due to pain in the back.

Believe in whoever you want, but don't do it openly: now the right to freedom of religion can be interpreted this way. In Russia, more than 50 people were put on trial for praying together and reading the Bible. Jehovah's Witnesses are searched and arrested in the same way as suspects of serious crimes, claiming that their faith is “an extension of the activities of an extremist organization.” What the accusations are based on is in the material of OVD-Info.