In Kaliningrad, Artur Eroshkin was detained because of a single picket. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Eroshkin stood outside the city hall with a poster “Smart voting. Against Edr” when he was detained. According to the activist, a woman passing by complained to the National Guard about him. Employees of the Russian Guard called the police, and Eroshkin was taken to OP No. 3.

In Moscow, Asker Heydarov, a confidant of the State Duma candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin, was arrested for three days. Heydarov’s interests in the police and court were represented by lawyer from OVD-Info Nikita Petreev and lawyer of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Maxim Sikach. Heydarov was charged with disobedience to the legal demands of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).

The election of a preventive measure for those involved in the case of “mass riots”, the request for a real prison term for the ex-chief of Navalny’s headquarters and election violations. We talk about the main news for September 17. The Basmanny Court of Moscow chose a preventive measure for five defendants in the case of mass unrest during the elections.

Former Open Russia activist from Cheboksary Yuri Sidorov was charged under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Lawyer Sergei Badamshin reports this on his Telegram channel.

The Investigative Committee completed its investigation into the case of Jehovah's Witnesses from Surgut and submitted it to the court with an approved indictment. As the Information and Analytical Center "Sova", charges were brought against twenty believers - under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization or participation in it (Parts 1, 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), as well as under the article on financing such activities (Part 1 of Art. . 282.3 CC).

A resident of Chita was sentenced to six years in a penal colony because of statements about an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB. It is reported by Interfax. The decision was made by a panel of three federal judges of the First Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk. The Chita resident was found guilty under the article on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

On September 2, the Maykop City Court upheld the decision of the magistrate on a fine of 20,000 rubles to Gamzat Magomedov, a volunteer of the Way Charitable Foundation. This was reported by the publication Kavkaz.Realii, the decision was published on the website of the court. The activist was found guilty under the article on carrying out missionary activities in violation of the law (Article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Soviet District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined 10 thousand rubles of the chairman of the human rights association “Committee against torture” Igor Kalyapin in the case of cooperation with an “unwanted organization”. This was reported in the telegram channel of the association.

During the special operation, the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the morning of September 15 detained at least 18 Muslims in Moscow and the Moscow region. This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center with reference to human rights activist Bakhrom Khamroev.

Muscovite Olga Kuzmina, who protested on a tree against renovation, is going to be forcibly hospitalized for an examination of her mental state. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Katerina Tertukhina, who is defending the activist. Kuzmina is charged with hooliganism committed by prior conspiracy with the use of objects used as weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

Ivan Petryakov, an employee of the House with a Lighthouse hospice , was detained near the Moscow City Hall building on Tverskaya Street. He himself told OVD-Info about this. Petryakov accompanied two activists who, with the help of single pickets, demanded that they be provided with medicines against spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) . The police detained Petryakov and took him to the Tverskoy district department: the fund employee allegedly looked like one of those wanted in a criminal case.

On September 16, the Volgograd Regional Court approved 74-year-old activist Galina Tikhenko a fine of 150 thousand rubles under the article on repeated violation of the rules for participation in public actions (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". On July 7, Galina Tikhenko went to a solo picket against deforestation in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow placed Maria Platonova, ex-designer of the election headquarters of Anastasia Bryukhanova, under house arrest, and placed Dmitry Chebanov, Zhanna Chernova, Nikita Kreshchuk and Alexey Kurlov in custody for two months. The court chose such preventive measures in the case of incitement to mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by Apology of Protest ; Platonov is defended by project lawyer Arkady Shindyapin.

In the Krasnodar region, two Jehovah's Witnesses, Oleg Danilov and Alexander Shcherbina, were transferred to other colonies. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. There is no exact information about where exactly the believers were transferred. It is assumed that Oleg Danilov will be taken to IK-11 in the Krasnodar region, and Shcherbina will be transferred to one of the correctional colonies in the Rostov region. Previously, both convicts were in colony No.

In Kolyvani (Novosibirsk Region) on the night of September 17, unknown people set fire to the house of Alexei Astafyev, the first secretary of the local branch of the Communist Party. This was reported on the party’s website. Police and officials from the district administration warned Astafyev of a possible arson, the communist said. On his YouTube channel, he published a video from the video surveillance camera: she recorded, as an unknown person approached the barn, and soon the fire began.