The State Duma rejected in the first reading a bill on decriminalization of the criminal article on repeated violations of the procedure for holding mass events (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). Meduza talks about this with reference to a broadcast from a State Duma meeting. reports 96 out of 450 deputies of the State Duma voted for the adoption of the bill. The rest of those present at the meeting abstained from voting, which did not allow the draft to proceed to the next reading.

Eduard Malyshevsky, arrested on September 2 in the case of “mass riots,” was charged with using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov.

In Sochi, the apartment of human rights activist and expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group Semyon Simonov is being searched. this on his Facebook . reported Alexander Popkov, lawyer for the Agora International Human Rights Group, The door to Simonov's apartment was broken. According to Popkov, investigative measures are being carried out not by the Investigative Committee, but by police officers - an investigator and a district police officer. The reason for the search is still unknown.

Three natives of Chechnya apologized for appealing to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, that "they have nowhere to live and no one to help." Before that, on the Grozny ChGTRK channel, local authorities advised the relatives of Chechen women to “watch their women,” the reports . Kavkazsky Uzel publication Aset Elbazurova, Zarema Lorsanova and Yakhmat Mitisheva grew up in Chechnya.

The Department of the Investigative Committee in Buryatia opened a criminal case under the article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the spraying of a gas canister at a spontaneous rally in Ulan-Ude. This was reported on the official website of the UK.

The Leninsky District Court of Penza fined Viktor Khomts, deputy of the City Duma and coordinator of the Left Front movement, 150,000 rubles for a hunger strike shortly before the elections. This was reported on the official website of the "Left Front". Khomts, who was recently elected to the Penza Duma, was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules for holding the event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The lawyer of the defendant in the Hizb case, Eduard Nizamov, told the publication Idel. Realii”, that on September 12 his client was presented with an indictment. Nizamov is charged with managing the Russian wing of the terrorist organization “Hizb” (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), financing terrorism (Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code) and preparing for a violent seizure of power (Part 1 of Article 30 of Article 278 of the Criminal Code).

The Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude arrested a protester Dmitry Bairov under three articles of administrative offenses. It is reported by TASS with reference to the website of the court. Earlier it was already reported that Bairov was arrested for five days under the article on organizing an uncoordinated event (2nd part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On September 12, Rosfinmonitoring added HSE student Yegor Zhukov to the federal list of persons considered involved in extremist or terrorist activities. Now the turnover of funds in Yegor's bank accounts will be limited to 10 thousand rubles a month. A day earlier, experts from the Institute of Criminalistics of the Center for Special Equipment of the FSB of Russia found signs of extremism in the videos on Yegor Zhukov's Youtube channel. Now Yegor Zhukov is under house arrest.

The NGS publication reports the arrest of its journalist and photographer, Argentinean Gustavo Velazquez. On the morning of September 12, on the instructions of the editors, he filmed the anti-terrorist exercises of the FSB and the police. The exercises are being held at the shipping lock, which was closed from 9 am to 3 pm.

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision to fine Petr Repin, who was detained while walking on August 10, and returned the case to the court of first instance. This was reported by lawyer Irina Putilova, who represented the interests of Repin in court. The court justified the decision by the fact that Repin is a member of the precinct election commission and for his administrative prosecution, a prosecutor's sanction is required, which the court of first instance did not request.

The Nalchik City Court extended the detention of Ibragim Dugiev, one of the nearly 30 defendants in the case of violence against police officers during the dispersal of a rally in Magas (Ingushetia) at the end of March 2019. The deadline has been extended to December 15th. This was reported on the website of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Eight defendants in the "second Bakhchisarai" case of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" were taken away from Crimea to participate in the trial, which will be held in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported in the Ukrainian telegram channel "Grati" with reference to the relatives of the accused. The case was opened in October 2017.

In Astrakhan, a confidant of PARNAS candidate Sergei Shcherbakov was detained. This was announced to OVD-Info by the chairman of the regional branch of PARNAS Mikhail Danilev. Shcherbakov was detained under the pretext that his car was stolen. The man daily takes part in a series of single pickets that take place outside the local administration building after the September 8 elections.

The head of the Federal Staff of Navalny Leonid Volkov reports on searches in 39 cities, including Penza, Orenburg, Kurgan, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Belgorod, Izhevsk, Omsk, Barnaul, Pskov, Ryazan, Stavropol and Saransk. In the comments he is written about searches and in Volgograd.