In Moscow, on Red Square, during a single picket, the police detained Vasily Efanov. The detainee himself told OVD-Info about this. The picketer stood with a banner “Fine, searches, arrests every day! Are the authorities crazy?" Efanov was taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station, and the security forces confiscated the poster. A protocol was drawn up against Efanov on participation in an uncoordinated public action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Summer begins with interrogations and searches, but there is good news.

In St. Petersburg, the prosecutor's office withdrew from the Smolninsky District Court a lawsuit to block the website of the Russian LGBT Network. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the representative of the organization Dilya Gafurova. an administrative claim The prosecutor's office filed on August 28 against the financial operator of the Russian LGBT Network, the Sphere Charitable Foundation for Social and Legal Assistance.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed new fines on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and its CEO Andrey Sharom in the amount of 67 million 50 thousand rubles under the article on violation of the law on foreign agents by the media (Article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Information about this was found by MBKh Media in the file of the court.

Photo from the YouTube channel "Country of sages" The Irkutsk civilian activist and blogger Dmitry Nadein, arrested due to a comment on the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB, are going to send for compulsory psychiatric treatment. This was reported by "Open Media" from the words of the mother of activist Marina Khvertina. In early April, the arrested was placed on a forced forensic psychiatric examination in the pre-trial detention center-1.

Alexander Dorogov / Photo from Twiter Yana Katelevsky The journalist of the Ros -Pusters Alexander Dorogov, who is in a pre -trial detention center in the Serpukhov near Moscow, announced a hunger strike. This was reported in the telegram channel "Katelevsky and the Roads Info." According to the channel, Dorogov was placed in a punishment cell, and therefore he began a hunger strike.

The Perovsky District Court of Moscow fined Anna Rivina, head of the Violence.Net Center, 150,000 rubles for violating the law on foreign agents. This is reported by Meduza. Rivina was found guilty under the article on the activities of an organization that the Russian authorities consider to be a foreign agent (part 1 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced in absentia the chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People, Refat Chubarov, to six years in prison. Interfax reports this. Chubarov currently lives in Ukraine and has been put on the wanted list .

On May 28, the Zheleznovodsk City Court (Stavropol Territory) found Magomed-Bashir Ozdoev, a person involved in the “Ingush case”, guilty 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 a rally in March 2019 in Magas and appointed punishment in the form of 8 months of imprisonment in a penal colony. This is reported by Fortanga with reference to the lawyer Kazim Atabiev.

The Moscow City Court considered an appeal against the sentence of former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky and reduced the sentence to 1 year and 11 months in a general regime colony. This was reported by MBKH Media with reference to the press service of the court. On April 16, the Tushinsky District Court found Zelensky guilty under the article on calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years in prison.

The Gornomariysky District Court in Kozmodemyansk (Mari El) sentenced 31-year-old Jehovah's Witness Ekaterina Pegasheva to six and a half years of probation with a probationary period of four years. She was found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info.

In St. Petersburg, police detained Ekaterina Mistryukova because of a picket in support of Roman Protasevich and Sofya Sapieha, who were arrested in Belarus, which took place on May 25 near the Yelizarovskaya metro station. She herself informed OVD-Info about this. Now the activist is being taken to police station No. 10. A lawyer from OVD-Info, Evgeniy Kheyfits, came to her aid.

Activist Konstantin Altukhov (Parkmen) was detained in Moscow - the police guarded him at the entrance. Now he is being taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Krasnoselsky district. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. According to law enforcement officers, they are going to draw up a protocol against him under the article on violation of the procedure for holding a rally (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In the morning, the police came with searches to the dacha near Kolomna and to the Moscow apartment of the politician Dmitry Gudkov, his former assistant and ex-chairman of Open Russia Alexander Solovyov, and the head of Gudkov's headquarters Vitaly Venidiktov. this The politician announced on his Telegram channel. What exactly was the reason for the visit is not yet known.

Publication date: 06/01/2021 English version: The Bill “without a catch”: How Article 267 of the Criminal Code became a “protest-related one” After protests on January 23 and 31, 2021 in support of Alexei Navalny, at least 23 people became involved in cases initiated under Article 267 of the Criminal Code - about “blocking transport communications.” More often, only Article 318 of the Criminal Code on the use of force against a government official was used (we talked about it in detail earlier