The Torzhoksky Interdistrict Court of the Tver Region sentenced local municipal deputy Marina Belova to one and a half years of probation in the case of dismantling a dilapidated house in the village of Galki. about this . writes Radio Liberty Belova was found guilty of destroying someone else's property in a generally dangerous way (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, participants in pickets in support of Afghan women — activist Anna and SotsFemAlternativa participant Ksenia Bezdenezhnykh — were fined 200,000 rubles each. The picketers were represented in court by lawyers from OVD-Info, Oksana Borodina and Sergei Telnov. The decision was made by the Presnensky District Court, which found the activists guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding the rally (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Restriction of freedom of the defendant in the “sanitary case”, threats to an activist from Berdsk and fines of up to half a million rubles due to involvement in Tablighi Jamaat. We talk about the main news for August 25th. The court imposed a year of restriction of freedom on the defendant in the “sanitary case”, Lyusya Stein. She was found guilty of inciting violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards.

The Moscow City Hall refused to coordinate a rally in defense of freedom of media and against legislation on “foreign agents” with the “Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers,” the association reports. The action was planned for September 4 on one of the squares of the Boulevard Ring. In their refusal, officials cited the epidemiological situation and the decree of the mayor of Moscow prohibiting public events.

The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee has begun checking reports of the use of physical force against Olga Shalina, head of the Moscow branch of the unregistered party The Other Russia E.V. Limonova, Novaya Gazeta . reports with reference to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) After her arrest on June 22, the police forcibly cut off her pectoral cross. Shalina and CPT lawyers filed a complaint about the unlawful use of force by the police.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov upheld the claim of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs against Vadim Ananin and Mikhail Semenov - now the activists must pay the security forces 183 thousand rubles. Ananyin himself reported this to OVD-Info. The payment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs is allegedly compensation for the work of law enforcement officers at the protests in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23.

The Investigative Committee of Tatarstan opened a criminal case of illegal sale of cold weapons (part 7 of article 222 of the Criminal Code) against the municipal deputy of the city council of Zelenodolsk, Yevgeny Efremov. On August 16, a search was held in his house. He himself told the OVD-Info about this, they write about details “IDEL. REALIALS”.

A former volunteer of Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa and a deputy of the Russko-Yurmash village council in the Ufa district, Albert Gaskarov, was detained by the police. His wife reported this to OVD-Info. On the morning of August 25, Gaskarov went to the Investigative Committee for questioning in the case against Alexei Navalny. Later, police officers detained the Ufa oppositionist; they plan to send him to a temporary detention facility for 48 hours before trial.

The Kurgan prosecutor's office canceled the decision to terminate the criminal case opened against the former coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, Alexey Schwartz, under the article on evasion of military service (Part 1 of Article 328 of the Criminal Code). Znak reports this with reference to an activist. A criminal case for draft evasion was opened against Schwartz in the fall of 2020, but in January 2021 they decided to drop it.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow imposed a year of restriction of freedom on the defendant in the “sanitary case,” municipal deputy Lyusa Stein. The Avtozak LIVE telegram channel is about this. The activist was found guilty of inciting violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny.

The human rights organization "Russian LGBT Network" reported on the kidnapping by security forces in Moscow of their client, a native of Dagestan, Ibragim Selimkhanov. He was kidnapped in order to learn about the work of the organization in the Caucasus. about it Writes "Mediazona". The abduction happened on May 15 near the Novogireevo metro station. Selimkhanov was approached by several people in civilian clothes who spoke the Chechen language.

The Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to pay 10 thousand rubles to local resident Kirill Petrov, who was detained at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31. “Apology of Protest” reports this on its Telegram channel. After being detained at the rally, Petrov was taken to the police department, where a report was drawn up against him regarding participation in an uncoordinated action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Proletarsky District Court of Saransk imposed fines of up to half a million rubles on three defendants in the case of participation in the international organization Tablighi Jamaat. This was reported by the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. Ryais Tyshkin and Aisa Aizatullin were found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and fined 500 thousand rubles each.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended for three months the arrest of five Crimean Tatars who are accused in the case of the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir group. This was reported by the human rights project "Crimean Solidarity". Citizen journalist Remzi Bekirov, human rights activist Riza Izetov and activists Raim Aivazov, Shaban Umerov and Farhod Bazarov will stay in the pre-trial detention center until December 16.

Unidentified people in Berdsk sent a funeral wreath to the address where the parents of Daria Artamonova, an opposition candidate for the city council from the coalition Novosibirsk-2021 about this , live. She tweeted . The funeral wreath accompanies an appeal to Artamonova's parents: "Alexander Nikolaevich, Galina Alexandrovna, we grieve together for Daria." The next day, Artamonova filed a statement with the police about death threats.