The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg dismissed the administrative cases of Open Russia activists Sergei Kuzin, Pyotr Trofimov and Vasily Kunin, who were detained during the May Day demonstration. This was reported to OVD-Info by Anastasia Burakova, a lawyer for the Human Rights Postcards. For all three, after the detention, protocols were drawn up under part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation by the participant of the rules for holding the event).

The police in the Arkhangelsk region opened a second case of disrespect for the authorities against Svetlana Baksheeva, a resident of the city of Kotlas, because of a comment on VKontakte. Previously, she had already been fined under this article. this on his Telegram channel .

In St. Petersburg, near the election commission of the Chernaya Rechka municipality, Alexander Shatalin, a candidate for deputies from the Yabloko party, was beaten. This is reported by "Znak" with reference to Shatalin himself. Before the incident, the man came to apply for his candidacy in the municipal elections.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on nine complaints by Russians about illegal detentions at rallies in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad in 2006-2010. This was reported in the telegram channel "Apology of Protest" with reference to the decision of the ECtHR. The ECHR ruled that in all cases the right to freedom of assembly (Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights) was violated.

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The head of the Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow and a candidate for deputy of the Moscow City Duma, Ilya Yashin, announced the falsification of a video with a collision with a pedestrian allegedly with his participation. about this He wrote on his Facebook page. We are talking about this video posted by another candidate for the Moscow City Duma, Maria Koleda.

In Novokuznetsk, two libertarian activists (that's how they introduced themselves - OVD-Info ) were summoned to the CPE because of the September 9 rally. They reported this to OVD-Info by calling the hotline. According to the activists, on July 1 they received summons to the Center for Combating Extremism for July 2. At the CPE, police officers talked to young people about the protest against pension reform on September 9 and the black and red flag that the activists carried at the event.

The police came to the place of registration of the actor Philip Gorenstein, who was detained on June 12 on a march against the fabrication of criminal cases. Gorenshtein told OVD-Info about this by phone. According to him, two policemen, one of whom was a local district police officer, came to Gorenstein's mother's apartment in the Rechnoy Vokzal metro area on July 1, where he himself is registered.

Police in St. Petersburg / Photo: David Frenkel After the protests of 2011-2012, the legislation on rallies has changed a lot: fines have grown, a new type of punishment appeared, and there are more reasons for administrative cases. We analyzed how over the past 15 years the courts examined cases of participation in shares, and released the dataset - with cards, graphs and analysis of the changes by year. And in this test you can check if you know how it works in practice.

Jan Sidorov (left) and Vladislav Mordasov (right) in court / photo: Elena Kolmykova In June, meetings began in the case of Yana Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov-about the riots in Rostov-on-Don. OVD-info talked with his grandfather Jan Vladimir Sidorov about the courts, conditions in jail and how he tries to achieve justice. Jan Sidorov was a chat administrator, in which they discussed the action on November 5, 2017 in Rostov-on-Don.