The European Court of Human Rights communicated the complaint of Cheboksary activist Mikhail Budarin, who in November 2017 was sentenced to 28 hours of compulsory labor for observing the picket on October 29, 2017. “Idel” writes about this. Reali." The ECtHR considered that the complaint was not inadmissible. “Since there is established judicial practice on these issues, the Court does not require the state to submit its written observations on the case.

In Ufa, the police detained the chairman of the national organization "Bashkort" Fail Alsynov. This was reported on the organization's page in VKontakte. Alsynov told Idel. Realii” that the officers of police department No. 9 came to his place of work and drew up a protocol against him under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event). Then the activist was taken to the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa.

On the border between Crimea and Ukraine, at the Chongar checkpoint, FSB officers detained Crimean Tatar activists Lenora Dyulber, Nariman Dzhelyalov, Lemmar Yunusov and Asab Mustafa. about this on his Facebook . writes Zair Smedlyaev, the head of the CEC of the Kurultai of the Crimean Tatar people, Dulber was the first to be detained. This happened around 11 o'clock in the afternoon. about an hour later She was released . Almost immediately after that, were detained .

The Volga District Military Court sent for retrial the materials about the torture of Dmitry Pchelintsev, a defendant in the “Network” case. Mediazona talks about this with reference to Public Verdict lawyer Eldar Luzin. With its decision, the court upheld Luzin’s complaint, which demanded that the refusal of the Investigative Committee to investigate the torture that FSB officers used on Pchelintsev to demand a confession be declared illegal.

The deputies of the State Duma in the first reading approved the partial decriminalization of the criminal article on inciting hatred and enmity (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code). about it . writes Interfax According to the draft law, the criminal punishment for the first offense under the first part of this article will be replaced by an administrative one.

In Chelyabinsk, the home of anarchists Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova was searched. The activist himself spoke about this. OVD-InfoTsibukovsky does not yet know whether law enforcement officers have a search warrant: he himself is not at home right now, only Safonova is in the apartment. According to Tsibukovsky, there is now no connection with Safonova. He does not know whether the search in the apartment in which he and the girl live has ended.

Screenshot from The Westport Independent / Double Zero Zero, Coffee Stain Publishing OTD-Info talks about ten computer games about protests, repressions, police and authoritarianism. Disrupt Street protest arcade simulator (English) Screenshot from the game Disrupt / SoLLUXX In the spring of 2017, Resistjam was held - during the week activists and creators of games from around the world talked and developed games that criticize authoritarianism and power structures.

European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg / Photo: Evgeny Feldman for the project "This is Navalny" The Grand Chamber of the ECHRA approved the decision on the complaint of Alexei Navalny about seven detentions at protests from 2012 to 2014. The European Court not only ordered Russia to pay Navalny 63,700 euros, but also recognized its persecution politically motivated. Now Russia will have to report to the Council of Europe on changes in the legislation on rallies.