In the city of Shakhty, in pre-trial detention center No. 4 of the Rostov region, Tofik Abdulgaziev, a defendant in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, became infected with blood. This was announced by the Ombudsman of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova on her Facebook page. The information, according to activists of the Crimean Solidarity movement, was also confirmed by Abdulgaziev's lawyer. “Illegally detained Crimean Tatar Tofig Abdulgaziev has blood poisoning.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Simferopol cleared the conviction of journalist Nikolai Semena, who was previously prosecuted under an article on calls for separatism. It is reported by the portal "Crimea. Realities". The reason for initiating a case under article 280.1 of the Criminal Code was the article by Semena “Blockade is a necessary first step towards the liberation of Crimea” on the portal.

I got a job as an administrator in a store in Kaluga. This was supposed to be my first day at work. [October 15, 2019] I left the house around seven in the morning. The FSB officers were waiting for me near the neighboring house. A guy came up to me and asked for my phone number: like, I really urgently need to call a taxi. I gave the phone number. At this time, two or three masked people ran out of a dark blue minibus parked nearby.

Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov was recognized as a victim in a criminal case under the article on abuse of power by police officers (clause “c” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code). The publication reports this on its website. The case against the police was opened on December 18, but Golunov was notified about this only on January 13. The investigator invited Golunov for questioning on January 20. Meduza investigative correspondent Ivan Golunov was detained on June 6.

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded compensation to former members of the National Bolshevik Party Mikhail Bashin and Sergei Chekunov, who were prosecuted under an article on the use of violence against government officials for a 2006 rally in St. Petersburg. This was reported on the website of the court. The Court considered that the right to liberty and security of person (Article 5 of the Convention) had been violated in respect of Bashin and Chekunov.

Photo: Page of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan In Kazan, the employees of the EC Center detained the Chairman of the Green Branch of the Green Fraction of the Reloing of the Yabloko party Elena Izota to draw up protocols on violations on public actions. This was reported by the press service of the Yabloko party in the Republic of Tatarstan. As the OVD-Info Izotova herself told, she is charged with violations on two promotions.

The Kirov administration refused to coordinate with local environmentalists a procession called "March of Mothers" against the construction of a plant for the disposal of radioactive waste. This is reported by the portal “Idel. Realii" with a link to the page "No Maradykovsky" in the social network "VKontakte". The organizers planned to walk along the alley of Oktyabrsky Prospekt from the monument to Kirov to the monument to the "Kirovites - Front".

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg did not extend the house arrest of Alexander Kovalenko, accused of justifying terrorism. About this portal “North. Realities." reports Pensioner Kovalenko was placed under house arrest in November 2019. The reason for the persecution was his post on VKontakte about the anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who blew himself up in the reception room of the Arkhangelsk FSB department.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on a complaint against the persecution of entrepreneurs Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the framework of the "second Yukos case" (2006-2010). The decision is published on the website of the court.

The Supreme Court suspended the activities of the Civil Initiative (Party of Change) party Andrei Nechaev and Dmitry Gudkov for three months at the suit of the Ministry of Justice, MBKh Media reports from the courtroom. The founder of the party Andrey Nechaev, who acted as a defendant at the trial, is sure that the lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice is a consequence of a consistently oppositional and critical position towards the authorities.

In St. Petersburg, the court justified the activist of the “unlimited protest” of the Iver Roman for administrative cases for disobedience to the police officer and the refusal to pass the examination for drugs, the St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov reports .

The Perm Regional Court upheld the verdict of the Ordzhonikidze District Court of Perm, which fined Jehovah's Witness Alexei Metzger under the article on participation in an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center and the website of the religious community. On January 13, the Perm Regional Court rejected the appeal against the sentence of 44-year-old Jehovah's Witness Alexei Metsger.

The Judicial Collegium for Military Affairs of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentences of five defendants in the Kazan cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir. This is reported by "Parental Solidarity", the information is also confirmed by the court card. The court upheld the verdict handed down by the Privolzhsky district military court.

Ivan Lyubshin / Photo from the Lyubshin page in VKontakte A resident of Kaluga Ivan Lyubshin wrote a comment on VKontakte, where he called Mikhail Zhlobitsky an “hero of the week” that exploded himself in the FSB, that he was a “news hero”. Later Lubshin deleted a comment. But a year later, a criminal case was opened on a man and beaten during the detention. He announced the beating, but the complaints did not lead to anything. OVD-Info talked with Lyubshin.