The judge of the Lazarevsky District Court in Sochi issued a private ruling to three lawyers Mikhail Benyash, Alexander Popkov and Sergey Kostyuk, who defended Alexander Valov, editor-in-chief of BlogSochi. Alexander Popkov told OVD-Info about this. According to him, after the verdict in the Valov case on extortion from a State Duma deputy, the judge issued private rulings to them.

The Investigative Committee brought a new charge against the former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, of a bribe of 9 million rubles. About this writes "MBH media" with reference to his wife Yulia Shestun.

The prosecutor asked the Moscow Military Court for 13 and 17 years for nine defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. This is reported by TASS with reference to the lawyer of one of them, Dagir Khasavov. The prosecution asked to sentence three people to 17 years in a strict regime colony, six to 13. Three men admit membership in Hizb ut-Tahrir, but deny their guilt, the rest say that they were not members of the Islamic party.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg ruled to recover 7.3 million rubles from the press secretary of the Spring movement, Bogdan Litvin, and the coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters, Denis Mikhailov, for damage to the city, which was allegedly caused by participants in the “He is not our king” action. This was reported in the telegram channel "Apology of Protest".

In Moscow, the Investigative Committee brought charges in the final version against the defendants in the case of the extremist community “New Greatness” Dmitry Poletaev and Pyotr Karamzin, wrote the head of “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev on February 4. Ruslan Kostylenkov was also charged, Agora lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told OVD-Info on February 5. The qualifications of the charges remain the same.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined two participants in the gathering against the demolition of the Nightingale cinema center Lilia Osipova and Igor Safonov for 100 thousand rubles. This was announced to OVD-Info by the secretary of the Association of Popular Resistance, Nikita Zaitsev. Osipova and Safonovo were charged with a repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Investigative Committee of the Omsk Region closed the criminal case against the radical feminist Lyubov Kalugina, who was accused of inciting hatred against men through VKontakte. Kalugina herself reported this to OVD-Info. “Formally, the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti,” says Kalugina. - Before that, my lawyer and I petitioned to dismiss the case, we can say that they satisfied it. The wording is rather slippery.

The police refused to open a criminal case on the attack on the Crimean Tatar activist Riza Asanov. about it Writes "Crimea. Realii” with reference to the refusal order. According to the publication, the police found no reason to open a case after the inspection. Asanov was attacked on January 2, 2019.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) found traces of torture on the body of the detained graduate student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, anarchist Azat Miftakhov. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to Valery Borshchev, a member of the PMC of the Moscow Region. “He has injuries on his body, on his neck. I saw traces of torture with a screwdriver. Now this place was covered with greenery for him.

Since the beginning of November, student Mikhail from Saratov has been summoned to the local department of the FSB because of his anarchist views. Recently, preventive conversations have been replaced by persuasion to start a page on VKontakte, where Mikhail will have to talk about the work and achievements of the security forces. In response to refusals, he is threatened with problems at work and school, and even a criminal case. OVD-Info publishes his story. It started like this.

Anastasia Shevchenko / Photo from the page of Anastasia on Facebook How can the mother of three children threaten a constitutional system? Facebook post, debate with the representative of the party in power - is ready. How can you become a defendant in the case of participation in a prohibited organization? In any way. They collected stories about the persecution of Open Russia and asked the activists what they were going to do next.