The Shali City Court sentenced the head of the Chechen “Memorial” Oyub Titiev to four years. colony-settlementsThis is reported by “The Case of Oyub Titiev | Human Rights Center "Memorial". Telegram channel Previously, the prosecutor for a human rights activist received four years in a general regime colony and a fine of 100 thousand rubles. The court accepted Titiev's age - he is 61 years old - as a mitigating circumstance.

In St. Petersburg, on Malaya Sadovaya Street, seven participants in a series of single pickets in support of Oyub Titiev were detained: Olga Smirnova, Elena Grigorieva, Marina Ken, Roman Samoilov, Ilya Tkachenko, Evgeniy Musin and Dmitry Negodin. Smirnova and Ken reported this themselves. OVD-InfoAccording to Smirnova, she herself did not even hold the poster in her hands and just stood nearby.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on fake news and disrespect for the state in publications. This is reported on the official website of legal information. Now for unreliable socially important information, a fine of up to one and a half million rubles is possible. Also, if the publication does not immediately remove such information, the telecom operator is obliged to block it. can be imposed.

In St. Petersburg, Assan Mumji and Elena Grigoryeva were detained on Malaya Sadovaya Street. Grigoryeva herself informed the OVD-Info about this. Mumji was detained after he installed an urn for voting about the status of Crimea. According to Grigoryeva, for this he is charged with unauthorized occupation of the land (Article 7.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Photo from the telegram channel "Green Ribbon" Grigoryev herself was detained during a single picket in support of Oyub Titiev.

In Yaroslavl on March 17, at an event in honor of the fifth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea, the police detained Mikhail Malinin, who stood with placards in support of Ukraine. Malinin told OVD-Info about this. According to the activist, when he unfurled the posters in the square where the celebration was taking place, people in civilian clothes approached him, tore out the posters and led him to a police car. Then the law enforcers took Malinin to the police hotel.

In Moscow, the police came to the headquarters of the Association of Popular Resistance (ANS). Denis Maksimov reported this to OVD-Info. The activist reports seven to eight police officers. According to him, they want to detain the movement’s press secretary, Nikita Zaitsev, but do not explain the reason for the detention.