The Moscow City Court recognized the legal refusal of lawyer Leonid Solovyov to enter the Ochakovo-Matveevskoye police station on the day of the rally in support of Alexei Navalny. Advokatskaya Street reports this. Earlier, the Nikulinsky Court of Moscow considered that the “Fortress” plan allows not allowing a lawyer to see clients, and the lack of the opportunity to defend them at the police department does not deprive the lawyer of the right to provide legal assistance.

The Nizhny Novgorod District Court canceled the fine and terminated the case of Iraida Oreshina, detained during a single picket in 2020. This was announced by a lawyer from the OVD-Info Olympiad Usanova. On August 30, 2020, a single picket dedicated to the persecution of the politician Nikolai Platoshkin on the theater Square of Nizhny Novgorod was held by Nizhny Novgorod.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk extended the arrest of journalist Nikolai Salnikov until August 16. It is reported by "Taiga.Info". The journalist is charged under the article on fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Police at the place of collection of signatures in support of Marina Matsapulina / photo from Twitter Matsapulina In St. Petersburg, two collectors of the signatures of the candidate for the city parliament of Marina Matsapulina were detained. About this writes "MBH Media". “There were collectors of signatures on Rollape near [street] Bakunin, and they were detained.

Criminal cases due to publications on social networks, pressure on Jehovah’s Witnesses and the dismissal of charges in a “sanitary case” against municipal deputy Konstantin Jankauskas. About the main news for July 14 - in the OVD-Info digest. In Novosibirsk, the court sentenced the defendant in the “palace case” Togrul Ismailov to a year of restriction of freedom. He was found guilty of inciting mass riots due to a publication in a telegram chat.

On July 12, the Sovetsky District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced the defendant in the “palace case,” Togrul Ismailovak, to one year of restriction of freedom. Information about this OVD-Info on the court website. discovered Ismailov was found guilty of calls for mass riots (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the man in a telegram chat called for violence against police officers ahead of the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23.

Bashkir politician Airat Dilmukhametov, sentenced to nine years in prison under several articles, is being transferred to a colony located in the Trans-Baikal Territory. This is reported by "Echo of Moscow in Ufa" with reference to Dilmukhametov's relatives. Dilmukhametov was serving a term in a strict regime colony No. 2 in Kazan. For what reason he was transferred to the Trans-Baikal Territory is unknown. Information, according to relatives, came from Novosibirsk.

The Sernursky District Court of the Republic of Mari El fined 58-year-old local resident Rozalia Timurgaliyeva for publishing the film Miracles of the Koran on her VKontakte page. This was reported by the information and analytical center "Sova". The court found the woman guilty of distributing extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The Miracles of the Quran film was added to the Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow held its first substantive hearing with the defendant in the “sanitary case,” Nikolai Lyaskin. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Telnov, who represents the interests of the politician. The defense petitioned to exclude the evidence and return the case to the prosecutor, but the court rejected all petitions.

OVD-Info appealed to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Moscow, Tatyana Potyaeva, with a complaint about a massive and gross violation of the rights of citizens in connection with the use of the practice of identifying protest participants from video cameras. In the complaint, OVD-Info lawyers referred to administrative cases following the rally in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place in Moscow on April 21.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk upheld the claim of Rospotrebnadzor for the forced hospitalization of the former coordinator of Navalny’s local headquarters, Violetta Grudina. Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group Agora, reports this with reference to lawyer Vladislav Zheinov. Hospitalization will continue until a negative test for coronavirus is received. Rospotrebnadzor believes that Grudina violated the self-isolation regime.

The Investigative Committee dropped charges in a “sanitary case” against Konstantin Yankauskas, a municipal deputy of the Zyuzino district in Moscow. This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Ilya Utkin. “Everything was leading up to this. The understanding of this outcome came at the moment when Konstantin received a preventive measure. Today, Konstantin was returned the items seized during the search and was given a decree to terminate the criminal prosecution.

The Zeya District Court of the Amur Region sentenced IT engineer Konstantin Moiseenko to six years probation under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization. The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info. According to investigators, Moiseenko organized meetings of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses. The prosecution relied on video recordings of religious services obtained by an embedded FSB agent.

The Sharya District Court of the Kostroma Region refused to replace Ruslan Kostylenkov, a defendant in the “New Greatness” case, with the unserved part of his sentence with a more lenient sentence. His lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina reported this on Facebook. Kostylenkov is serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 2 in the Kostroma region.

The Yakut City Court dismissed the case of a local resident on the dissemination of fake information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the telegram channel "Network freedoms". A resident of Yakutsk was accused of spreading false information for sending a WhatsApp message about the death of a woman after vaccination.