The Moscow City Court upheld the fine to pensioner Alexander Ushenko for a single picket near the city hall. The appeal was filed by OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Selezneva, she also represented Ushenko in the court of first instance. In July, the Tverskoy District Court fined Ushenko 5,000 rubles, finding him guilty under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event). The court, referring to Presidential Decree No.

In the courts of Simferopol, hearings were held on the cases of the Crimean Tatars detained in the morning - Marlen Mustafaev, Zarema, Riana and Zekkiy Kulametov. The Kiev District Court of Simferopol arrested Mustafayev for 12 days, wrote on Facebook. journalist Anton Naumlyuk Mustafayev was found guilty under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda of prohibited symbols) because of a Facebook post with symbols from Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is banned in Russia.

In Moscow, Olga Shalina, the head of the Moscow branch of The Other Russia, was charged with an administrative protocol because of a rally in defense of freedom of assembly on Triumfalnaya Square. She herself told OVD-Info about this. Shalina said that three employees of the Center for Combating Extremism came to her house and took the girl to the police department in the Tverskoy district.

The Tbilisi District Court of the Krasnodar Territory fined local blogger Valery Klimenchenko 12,000 rubles for standing in a solitary picket with a poster "Thank you" to Putin for raising the pension age and VAT! about this He wrote on his page in VKontakte. Klymenchenko was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by the organizer of the procedure for holding a public event). He intends to appeal the court's decision.

The Balakhninsky City Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region sentenced Roman Gubaidullin, a member of the Artpodgotovka movement, to 4.5 years in a penal colony. The lawyer of the convicted person, Alexey Matasov, told OVD-Info about this. The activist was found guilty of inciting hatred or hostility towards the residents of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), as well as of illegal possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow arrested Alexander Lebedev, a former member of the election commission in the Chelyabinsk region, for 5 days under an article on petty hooliganism for swearing at the CEC building. about this on his Facebook . wrote Lebedev himself Judge Alesya Orekhova found Lebedev guilty under Part 1 of Article 20.1 (petty hooliganism).

In such cases, there are all the same problems as in any Russian criminal cases: the pressure on the accused and their relatives, the court refusals to attract independent experts, violations of professional rights of defenders , etc. But there is a feature: they are conducted by the FSB, all stages of the case are under the control of this special services.

The Justice of the Peace in Cheboksary dismissed the administrative case against Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. He was excited because the activist gave a bouquet of flowers to the speaker of the local State Council, Valery Filimonov. about this The activist wrote on his Facebook page. Sidorov was accused of carrying out the activities of an undesirable organization in Russia (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court sent for a new consideration two cassation complaints about the detention of the defendants in the case of the “New Greatness” of Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik. This was reported by the correspondent of the city news agency "Moscow" and the courtroom. The Presidium decided to partially satisfy the complaint of lawyers arrest and sent the case for a new consideration to the appeal instance.

In Yakutsk, police detained Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the organizer of a rally against pension reform and coordinator of the regional headquarters of Alexei Navalny. The activist told OVD-Info about this. Police officers invited him to meet to read a "paper on preventing extremism" during the protests. According to Nogovitsyn, this is a common practice and happens before every public event he organizes.

The house of the Crimean Tatar activist Marlen Mustafayev was searched, after which he was detained. This is stated on the Facebook page of the Crimean Solidarity public association. According to Mustafayev's wife, a criminal case has been opened against him under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). They searched the house for weapons, confiscated their documents and telephones, and took Mustafayev himself away.

Around the cases of Gosizmen (275 article of the Criminal Code, from 12 to 20 years in prison), scandals almost always arise. Each time it turns out that the reason for criminal prosecution is extremely absurd, and they are judged by random people. “Team 29” is an organization that protects the chased 275 of the Criminal Code. The head of the “team”, lawyer Ivan Pavlov, spoke about the “betrayal” affairs of the OTD-Info.