The Orekhovo-Zuevsky City Court of the Moscow Region has reinstated Vladimir Shlyapkin, an electric train driver in the Moscow metro, who was fired after the alleged leak of the database of Alexei Navalny's supporters. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta. The court exacted 450,000 rubles from the metro "on account of wages for the time of forced absenteeism", as well as 15,000 rubles as compensation for non-pecuniary damage.

A verdict in a “sanitary case”, huge sentences for those involved in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Crimea, and a hunger strike by a Bashkir activist in a pre-trial detention center. Read the main news for August 16. Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary matter”, and the former head of Navalny’s headquarters in Moscow, Oleg Stepanov, was asked to receive two years of restriction of freedom.

On August 11, the Kirovsky District Court of Saratov fined 21-year-old Ilya Kuleshov 30 thousand rubles in the case of spraying police at the April 21 rally in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the Investigative Committee for the region and local authorities. Case card on the court website.

Alexey Pichugin , the former head of the internal economic security department of the Yukos company , asked members of the POC not to visit him in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. This was announced in his telegram channel by human rights activist, secretary of the PMC of Moscow Alexei Melnikov. Pichugin's statement was handed over to human rights activists by an employee of the SIZO administration. “Literally, the following was written in the statement: “Dear ...!

Vladislav Esipenko, a freelance journalist for the publication Crimea.Realii, who suffered from torture at the hands of security forces, spoke about the deterioration of his health in the pre-trial detention center. The publication reports this with reference to his wife Ekaterina Esipenko. The journalist is accused of manufacturing explosives (Part 1 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code) and storing them (Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

Photo from the telegram channel "Oleg Stepanov. Team" The prosecutor's office demanded that the ex-head of the headquarters of Navalny in Moscow Oleg Stepanov two years of restriction of freedom in the “sanitary business” in Moscow. This was reported by the team of Stepanov. They want to forbid the opposition to leave Moscow and the Moscow region, leave the house from 22:00 to 6:00 and participate in mass shares. Stepanov also plan to oblige to be celebrated in the FSIN three times a month.

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan filed an appeal against the extension of the preventive measure for activist of the Bashkir national movement Ramila Saitova. Her son Akim Saitov told OVD-Info about this. On August 4, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa rejected the activist in pre-trial detention until October 14. The lawyers insisted on transferring the client to house arrest due to the deterioration of her health: Saitova has been on a hunger strike since July 22.

The court in Arkhangelsk, at the request of the investigator, sent eco-activist Andrei Khristoforov, known as Drevarkh Enlightened, under house arrest. This was reported on the official website of the Western Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the RF IC. Khristoforov is charged with a criminal article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the case of the head of the local "teacher of teachers" Daniil Ken. This was reported in the telegram channel "Network Freedom". Daniil Ken (on the right) with his lawyer Alexander the tuning of the court / photo: "Network freedoms" Ken was charged with an article on insulting a judge (part 2 of article 297 of the Criminal Code). The case was based on the report of an employee of the EE Center.

The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Moscow upheld the decision to extend the preventive measure until August 21 for Rosderzhava journalist Yan Katelevsky. This was reported in the telegram channel “Katelevsky and Dorogov Info”. The prisoner is now in a pre-trial detention center; he participated in the meeting via video conferencing.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow sentenced Alexei Navalny's press secretary Kira Yarmysh to one and a half years of restriction of freedom on a “sanitary case.” The opposition tweeted about this. In addition, Navalny’s ally was reported to have had her house arrest lifted. On August 12, the prosecutor asked Yarmysh for two years of restriction of freedom and asked to leave her under house arrest until the sentence comes into force.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced the persons involved in the Alushta case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir” to the terms of 12 to 18 years in prison. It is reported by Crimean Solidarity. Relatives of the accused by the court of the court / photo: "Crimean solidarity" In total, there are four defendants: Lenur Khalilov, Ruslan Mesutov, Ruslan Nagaev and Eldar Kantimirov.