The defense did not agree with the results of the investigative experiment, which was supposed to recreate the circumstances of the detention of the head of the Chechen human rights center “Memorial” Oyub Titiev. The Caucasian Knot reports this. Titiev is accused of drug possession (Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The investigation claims that on the day of his arrest, law enforcement officers found marijuana in his car.

On December 13, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia canceled the fine for the head of the human rights organization Mashr, Magomed Mutsolgov, and dismissed his administrative case, reports . Mediazona In November, the human rights activist was fined 10,000 rubles, found guilty of violating the rules of the event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), because of a rally against the transfer of land to Chechnya.

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the decision to arrest lawyer Mikhail Benyash, reports . Mediazona In September, Benyash was found guilty of disobeying a police officer (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and arrested for 14 days. The website of the court states that the proceedings in this case have been terminated. that the decision in the case of disobedience to the police be cancelled demanded The prosecutor's office itself .

The Presidium of the Supreme Court recognized as lawful the long-term detention of Dmitry Buchenkov, a person involved in the Bolotnaya case, in a pre-trial detention center and under house arrest. It is reported by TASS. Buchenkov spent one year and nine months in custody and house arrest. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that he was in detention for too long, and Russian courts unfairly extended the measure of restraint.

On December 18, the Volga District Military Court in Ufa did not allow the relatives of those involved in the case of the “thirteen” about participation in Hizb ut-Tahrir as public defenders in the trial. The Caucasian Knot writes about this with reference to the wife of one of the defendants. The judge considered that this would delay the process, since the relatives do not have a legal education. All accused are defended by appointed lawyers.

The Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined Pavel Nikulin, editor-in-chief of Moloko plus, a thousand rubles under the article on disobedience to the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was detained during the presentation of the almanac, which was disrupted by the police. about this with reference to Nikulin himself. writes Mediazona The court re-examined the administrative case.

““Cannon fodder”: Alexey Navalny uses children for his own profit” - such headlines regularly appear in the pro-government press in connection with mass actions organized by support groups for the politician throughout the country. This is how the authorities are trying to make it clear to society that schoolchildren are the people on whom the current protest rests.

The Sovetsky District Court of Samara has fined Aleksey Timofeev, an activist of “indefinite protest,” 10,000 rubles for an action against state propaganda. About it writes "MBH Media". On December 9, the police detained seven activists during a walk with carts and large TVs. For four, protocols were drawn up on violation of the rules of the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). One of the detainees was taken away from the department in an ambulance.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill on the partial decriminalization of the article on inciting hatred or enmity (282 of the Criminal Code). a live broadcast on the website of the Duma There is . According to the bill, if for the first time a person posts, according to the court, material that incites hatred or enmity, then an administrative protocol is drawn up against him. If he does this again within six months, a criminal case is initiated.

In St. Petersburg, nationalist Dina Garina was sentenced to 180 hours of compulsory labor in the case of insulting two employees of the E Center, but was immediately released from punishment due to the statute of limitations. Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, reports this.

In the village of Starokorsunskaya, a private carrier raised prices for the only minibus to Krasnodar from 35 to 58 rubles. Local residents decided to hold daily protests, after which one of them, Alexei Nikitin, spoke about the call to the police and pressure on his wife at work. about this . writes The "Caucasian Knot" The first action took place on December 16, the next day the city administration promised to discuss a sharp rise in prices at an emergency meeting, but this did not happen.

Raise June 12, 2017 in St. Petersburg / Photo: David Frenkel The bill, punishing for the involvement of minors in inconsistent public actions, was the result of speculations around rallies organized by the support groups of Alexei Navalny: supposedly adolescents are almost the main power of the current protest. We calculated the average age of the alleged participants in Navalny’s shares and found out: most likely minors among them are less than 15%.