At the Irkutsk airport, the police, without giving a reason, detained Boris Ushakov, coordinator of the Gulagu.net human rights project. It is reported by MBH Media. According to Ushakov, he came to the airport to buy a return ticket from Irkutsk in advance, where he was supposed to work for about a week. “At the moment, I am threatened with physical violence.

In St. Petersburg, the expert of the Russian branch of Greenpeace Rashid Alimov was detained. This was reported by the press service of the organization. According to the lawyer Alimov, the detainee is charged with Article 7.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - “Unauthorized occupation of the land”. Presumably, Alimov was detained in connection with the action against the import of uranium “tails”, which took place on the day of December 17.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Zafar Yakubov and Danil Bagautdinov, defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Tatarstan. This was reported by the “Parental Solidarity” telegram channel. Yakubov was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security colony under articles on directing the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 1 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and recruitment into a terrorist organization (Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

The editor-in-chief of BlogSochi, Alexander Valov, who was sentenced to six years in prison, was placed in a punishment cell. This was reported by the lawyer Michial Benyash in his telegram channel. According to him, Valov was placed in a ShIZO not because of a violation of internal regulations, but because of some “operational necessity”. Alexander Valov is serving a sentence in IK-14 of the city of Angarsk, Irkutsk Region.

The Leninsky District Court of Penza has terminated the case against Roman Stotsky, who was accused under the article on the organization of an inconsistent public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), for participating in a performance dedicated to violation of human rights. This was announced by the OVD-Info by Stotsky himself. At the meeting, the activist himself represented his interests.

Prosecutor Sergei Semerenko, at a meeting of the Central District Military Court in Penza, announced the dismissal of charges of planning to arson a military registration and enlistment office (Part 3 of Article 30 and Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code) against Dmitry Pchelintsev, a defendant in the Penza “Network” case. This was reported by the publication “7×7”. Semerenko said that the accusation was not confirmed during the investigation.

The Essentuki city court extended the arrest of the chairman of the council of teips of Ingushetia, Malsag Uzhakhov, for 3 months in the case of violence against security officials. This was reported to OVD-Info by his lawyer Dzhabrail Kuriev. According to him, the documents allegedly confirming that his client can hide from the investigation were drawn up 4 days later than the application for an extension of the measure of restraint.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow dismissed the claim of Vitaly Tolkalov, the owner of the noodle shop "Pull-Pull", against the employees of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Lyubov Sobol and Georgy Alburov. It is reported by MBH Media. The entrepreneur demanded to recover from Sobol and Alburov 100 thousand rubles of damage, which, according to him, was caused by a noodle shop during a protest on August 3.

On November 19 at six o’clock in the morning they (Farrukh Makhkamov and several other people - OVD-Info ) were taken. I learned from the neighbors the time when [the security forces] came to us. The neighbors were also shocked. They say there was such a noise. In the first days, I was not at all aware of what was happening. Just because there was blood in the apartment, they searched and turned everything upside down. I was in another city at that moment.

The Zelenodolsk city court in Tatarstan terminated the administrative case against Tatyana Vorobyova, who was detained on December 16 in an eco-camp near Kazan. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest". The human rights project, citing lawyer Danila Nurgaleev, adds that police witnesses were confused in their testimony at the hearing, and “there was controversial evidence in the case.” The court found no offense under Art.

Sergey Surovtsev at a meeting / photo: Telegram channel "Prisoners 212" On December 17, the Tver District Court of Moscow extended the arrest to Sergey Surovtsev, the defendant of the “Moscow case” of the third wave. This was reported by the lawyer of Surovtsev from the ATS-info Nikolai Fomin. Sergei Surovtsev will remain in jail until June 10, 2020.

Judge Krivoruchko of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow once again fined Alexander Cherkasov, Chairman of the Board of the Memorial Human Rights Center, 100 thousand rubles under the law on foreign agents (part 2 of article 19. 34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the alleged absence of the “foreign agent” marking in the HRC group Vkontakte . Yulia Orlova, press secretary of Memorial HRC, reports this.

In Irkutsk, the psychologist of the project "Siberia without torture" Natalya Varshney was searched. This was reported by the human rights organization "Public Verdict". Svyatoslav Khromenkov, the head of Siberia without Torture, reports on Facebook that one of the operatives who participated in the investigation into the case of police torture of local resident Marina Ruzaeva was present during the search.

Jehovah's Witnesses in Karachay-Cherkessia were raided at nine addresses, Kavkaz reports . Realities" with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The police discovered “illegal missionary activity” (Article 5.26 of the Administrative Code) and decided to confiscate the believers’ mobile phones, computers, tablets, flash drives and literature.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended the house arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko, accused under an article on an undesirable organization. This is reported by "Pravozashchita Otkrytka" with reference to Shevchenko's lawyer Sergei Badamshin. The house arrest was extended for another month, until January 18, 2020. The court also allowed Anastasia Shevchenko to talk to her mother on the phone.