The founder of "Team 29" left Russia, businessman Anatoly Bykov was given a huge sentence, and blogger Yuri Khovansky was left in jail. We are talking about the main news for September 7th. Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoly Bykov was sentenced to 13 years in a 1994 murder case. His supporters attribute the persecution to the businessman's plans to be elected to the State Duma. Nikolai Platoshkin, the leader of the For New Socialism movement, had his sentence commuted on appeal .

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of the leader of the movement “For New Socialism” Nikolai Platoshkin. 5 years of imprisonment was suspended to 4 years 9 months; The 700 thousand ruble fine was reduced to 500 thousand. This is reported by SOTA. On May 19, Platoshkin was found guilty under articles of involvement in mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and dissemination of knowingly false information (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court left Jehovah's Witnesses Yuri Temirbulatov and Alexander Serebryakov in pretrial detention. The period of their detention is thus extended to nine months. This is reported by a website covering the persecution of believers. The court did not take into account the cancer diagnosed in Temirbulatov. The believer's lawyer pointed out the need for urgent treatment for his client, who was suffering from pain.

The Porkhovsky District Court of the Pskov Region found local Jehovah's Witness Alexei Khabarov guilty of participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The believer was sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of two years.

The Privolzhsky District Court of Kazan upheld the fine imposed on the former head of Navalny's local headquarters, Oleg Yemelyanov, because of a video in which he discusses the legality of holding actions without the sanction of the authorities. This is reported by the telegram channel "Network freedoms".

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended the arrest of the Crimean defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Vadim Bektemirov, until December 16. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity portal with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom.

Lawyer Ivan Pavlov, ex-head of Team 29 and a defendant in the case of disclosure of preliminary investigation data (Article 310 of the Criminal Code), left Russia due to pressure from the authorities. He reported this on his Telegram channel. At the end of April, Pavlov was ordered to prohibit certain actions.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the detention of YouTube blogger Yuri Khovansky until October 8. This is reported in the telegram channel of the support group. Blogger and assistant to Duma deputy Yuri Khovansky is accused of justifying terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a song about hostage-taking during the musical Nord-Ost. Since June 10, he has been in jail.

At the request of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, YouTube blocked the plot of Dozhd with a fragment of the pre-election debate, during which the leader of the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice, Maxim Shevchenko, demanded the release of Alexei Navalny. This was announced on the evening of September 6 by the publication itself.

Maxim Ivankin, a defendant in the “Network” case, sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony, was transported from the Chuvash IK-9 in an unknown direction. Anna Shalunkina, the wife of the convicted person, reported this on Facebook. “On September 5, my husband was urgently taken from IK-9 in the Chuvash Republic in an unknown direction. I didn’t even have time to pack my things. Presumably the final destination of the stage is FKU T-2 Vladimir (central).

In the first six months of 2021, Moscow courts considered 6,727 cases under the article on violation of the procedure for holding a public event (20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and imposed a total fine of 65.6 million rubles. This follows from official data published by the Moscow Department of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court. Of all the cases considered under this article, 90% ended with indictments.

The Krasnoyarsk regional court found businessman Anatoly Bykov, who was going to run for the State Duma, guilty in a murder case in 1994. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in a strict regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the court. The prosecutor's office demanded a sentence of 14 years and 11 months in a colony. On August 31, a jury found Anatoly Bykov guilty of double murder. According to Taygi.info, four out of six jurors considered Bykov's guilt proven.

On September 6, the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma sentenced Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Terebilov to three years in a maximum security colony. OVD-Info was informed about this by the press service of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses. 39-year-old Terebilov 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).