In St. Petersburg, activist Vladimir Shipitsyn was detained on Nevsky Prospekt. This was reported to OVD-Info by activists who witnessed the detention. Shipitsyn came to the evening in memory of the murdered LGBT activist Elena Grigorieva. He was detained after he began to leave and moved towards the subway. Shipitsyn was put into a police car and taken away. He managed to say that he was not told the reason for the detention. UPD 21:20 Shipitsyn is being taken to the 78th police department.

In Kungur, mothers of children with disabilities who came to the city festival in identical T-shirts in defense of the special school are called to the police. This was reported on the MBH Media website with reference to one of them, Svetlana Agapitova. On July 21, the mayor of Kungur, Sergey Gordeev , wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office, demanding to check the actions of the mothers with a view to holding an uncoordinated public event.

FSB officers did not release the wife, two young children and mother-in-law of Linar Vakhitov, a defendant in the Ufa Hizb ut-Tahrir case, from Russia. Vakhitov’s wife, Regina, reported this to the Memorial Human Rights Center. The woman said that on July 16, 2019, at the border checkpoint in the Kursk region, FSB officers, after checking documents, called Vakhitova and her mother for a conversation to clarify the purpose of the trip.

Detention On July 12, at about six in the morning, the Gates of the Maisigovs was rudely and persistently knocked. Hastily dressed, the mother of Rashid Maisigova, Ferdovs Plieva, opened the gate. In front of her stood armed people in masks, and there was armored military equipment on the street. Without introducing himself, the security forces rushed into the house, into the room of her son. He slept at this time, like everything in the house.

Turana Varzhabetyan, a pensioner from Moscow, filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Dorogomilovsky Court against bailiffs. She accuses them of illegally seizing 10,000 rubles from her pension to pay a fine for participating in the picket. This was reported to MBKh Media by the lawyer of the Public Verdict, Alexei Laptev. Varzhabetyan claims that the seizure of money was illegal, since she paid the fine back in the summer of 2018.

Stanislav Zimovets, convicted in the March 26 case, was released from colony No. 12 of the Volgograd region in the city of Volzhsky. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the duty department of the colony. The same information was confirmed to OVD-Info by Zimovets’ lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. As the Caucasian Corner was told at the duty station of IK-12, Zimovets left the territory of the colony today.

The police of the village of Sarmanova in Tatarstan drew up a second report on disrespect for the authorities against a local resident Maxim Semin. this on his telegram channel announced Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group, with reference to the website of the Sarmanovsky District Court. What was the reason for initiating a new case under Part 3 of Art. 20.1 (dissemination of information expressing disrespect for the authorities) against Semin is still unknown.

Two activists of the environmental movement “Stop GOK” in Chelyabinsk were fined 1,000 rubles for publishing extremist materials on VKontakte. This was reported by 74.ru with reference to Sosnovsky District Prosecutor Svetlana Pudova. Local residents, whose names were not specified, were found guilty under Article 20.29 of the Administrative Code (production and distribution of extremist materials). We are talking about reposts made by activists on VKontakte.

Activists of the Left Resistance were denied permission to rally in defense of freedom of assembly "New Strategy 31". This was reported by the activists themselves in their group on VKontakte. In response to the notification of the action on Triumfalnaya Square on July 31, the Moscow Department of Regional Security stated that "another event is planned to be held on the indicated day at the declared location." What this event is, the letter does not specify.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay 3,600 euros to the head of the Committee against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, for illegal detention at the March of Dissent in 2007. “Apology of Protest” reports this on its Telegram channel. The ECHR found that during the detention of Kalyapin, Article 5 (the right to liberty and security of person) and Article 13 (the right to an effective remedy) of the European Convention on Human Rights were violated.

The Investigative Committee in Dagestan has charged Chernovik journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev with financing terrorism. The head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov announced this in his Telegram channel. According to investigators, Gadzhiev committed a crime under Part 4 of Art. 205.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of terrorist financing).

In Voskresensk, near Moscow, the police detained Alexei Kholkin, an eco-activist and member of the “I am the people” movement. This OVD-Info was told by his colleague Yevgeny Solovyov. Police officers met Kholkin at the entrance to his house and took him to the Vinogradovsky police department. There, a protocol was drawn up against him under Article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organization of a mass gathering of people that caused a violation of public order).

Since October 2018, residents of Ingushetia have been protesting against the transfer of lands of Chechnya. About 30 activists were arrested in criminal cases, but the persecution affected not only the participants in the rallies. The journalist of the Fortanga publication Rashid Maisigov, who covered the protests, was detained by the FSB officers. He was accused of storing drugs and subjected to torture.