In Moscow, the police detained a man who is accused of setting fire to the wheel of a car of the Russian Guard at a rally on January 31 in support of Alexei Navalny. This is reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow. The detainee's name has not been released. A criminal case was opened under the article on damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

On February 2, the Birobidzhansky District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region sentenced local Jehovah's Witness Arthur Lokhvitsky to 2 years and 6 months of suspended imprisonment with 3 years of probation. This was reported by the press service of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The prosecutor's office demanded that the believer be sentenced to 4 years of actual imprisonment.

In Moscow, the police detained eco-activist Yekaterina Korolkova, who was photographing the felling of a grove near Kutuzovsky Prospekt, 72. Eyewitnesses told OVD-Info about this. Korolkova was detained by a PPS inspector at about 11:00 a.m., there was no badge on the security officer's uniform. The eco-activist was taken to the Fili-Davydkovo police station.

On February 2, a justice of the peace in Moscow fined Radio Liberty and its CEO Andrey Shary under an article on violating the procedure for the operation of a foreign media outlet acting as a foreign agent (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Roskomnadzor. In relation to the media itself, 4 protocols were considered and fines were imposed in the amount of 2 million rubles, in relation to Shary - 4 protocols in the amount of 200 thousand rubles.

The Meshchansky district police department in Moscow has charged Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina with a “sanitary case.” “Apology of Protest” reports this on its Telegram channel. Alyokhina is charged with a criminal offense of incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 4, Article 33, Part 1, Article 236 of the Criminal Code). Along with Alekhina was a lawyer from the Apology of Protest, Daniil Berman. The Pussy Riot member is currently under house arrest.

In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, a criminal case of vandalism was opened (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code) after the action on January 31 in support of Alexei Navalny. Zhargal Budaev passes the accused on him, he said by the OVD-info. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the police delivered Budaev directly from work. According to the accused, he was clarified by the address of the place of residence.

On February 2, in the Moscow City Court, politician Alexei Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case was replaced with a real term. Taking into account house arrest, Navalny will have to serve 2 years 8 months in a general regime colony. After the announcement of the verdict, protests began in Moscow and St. Petersburg; at the time of publication of the text, 1,144 detainees were known. OVD-Info sums up the results of this day.

At the trial of Sergey Smirnov / Photo: Yegor Skovoroda, "Mediazon" The team of the human rights project of the OTD-Info expresses solidarity with the chief editor of the Mediazone, the chief editor of the Mediazone Sergei Smirnov and requires the immediate liberation of his and all other arrested journalists.

Many of those detained at the protests against the trial of Alexei Navalny on February 2, 2021 were left in police departments overnight. This means that most likely on February 3 they will be taken to the courts. We publish a list of courts and inform where our lawyers will work. IMPORTANT : The latest information related to the courts appears promptly in our telegram channel .