Former FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol has been put on the wanted list. Interfax drew attention to the new card in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database. It is not specified in the card what exactly Sobol is wanted for. On September 30, the Moscow City Court approved the sentence for the oppositionist in the “sanitary case”: one and a half years of restriction of freedom.

Despite being accredited, a journalist from the Vladimir edition of Tomiks was not allowed to attend a court session at the Frunzensky District Court of Vladimir, where witnesses were questioned in the case of a policeman accused of beating a suspect. It is reported by Tomiks.

The preventive measure was left unchanged for the editors of DOXA, journalist Yury Dudya was fined because of an interview, and political prisoner Oleg Prikhodko is being pressured in the colony. We tell the main news for October 20. The editors of the student magazine DOXA, accused of involving minors in dangerous activities, were left without changes in the measure of restraint.

The Tverskoy District Court imposed a fine of 15 thousand rubles on activist Ilya Ermakov. This was reported to OVD-Info by OVD-Info lawyer Oleg Filatchev, who represented Ermakov’s interests in court by proxy. Ermakov was found guilty under the article on participation in an unapproved public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) for an action against political repression that took place on September 15.

On October 18, the Ust-Abakansky District Court of Khakassia denied 70-year-old Valentina Baranovskaya early release from the colony. Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia reported this. The lawyer provided the court with a medical report with a confirmed diagnosis of “cerebral infarction,” which Baranovskaya was diagnosed with in the summer of 2020. The court did not consider serious illness a sufficient basis for early release. The believer's term of imprisonment expires in January 2023.

In St. Petersburg, Olga Smirnova, a civil activist and participant in the “Strategy-18” protests, was searched in connection with the case of justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). She herself reported this to OVD-Info. The door to Smirnova's apartment was knocked down by riot police. She is currently signing a search warrant. The investigator interrupted Smirnova’s conversation with OVD-Info. The reason for initiating the case was pickets in support of the Crimean Tatars.

The Petrogradsky District Court in St. Petersburg ruled that the Humanitarian Action organization, recognized as an “NGO-foreign agent”, does not engage in “political activities”. Earlier, the Oktyabrsky District Court made the opposite decision, in response to the fund's attempt to challenge the status of a foreign agent. It is reported by "Kommersant". The Humanitarian Action Charitable Foundation was recognized as an NGO as a “foreign agent” in December 2020.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg terminated the proceedings on the case of violation of holding a public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against Maria Voyutskaya, the tweet reported. Apology of Protest The court refused to recognize the collection of signatures as a public event.

Dagestan activist Salim Khalitov, who was arrested after the picket, ended his dry hunger strike. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". The activist was visited today by a member of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Dagestan, Uma Askerkhanova. “Salim didn’t eat or drink for five days. No one could persuade him to eat at least a little. But the staff of the special detention center during all these days constantly persuaded him to take food.

Sergei Ozerov, convicted in the Artpodgotovka case, complains of deteriorating health. This is reported by Idea.Realities. From colony IK-27 in the Verkhnekamsk district of the Kirov region, where the political prisoner is serving his sentence, he was transferred to Medical Correctional Institution No. 12 in Kirovo-Chepetsk. The building houses patients with coronavirus, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, as well as prisoners with disabilities.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the director of the Nazarovsky agricultural technical school Nikolai Maltsev was almost fired due to the support of the Communist Party. This was reported by the NGS24 publication. Before the elections, Maltsev posted in his social networks the agitation video of the candidate for deputies from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Boris Melnichenko.

The Supreme Court of Crimea satisfied the appeal of Kurtseit Abdullayev, who was detained during a spontaneous gathering near the FSB building. This was reported on the Crimean Solidarity Facebook page. On September 14, the Kyiv District Court fined the Crimean 25,000 rubles under the “covid” article on failure to comply with the rules of conduct in an emergency (20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The magistrate of the court district No. 66 of St. Petersburg dismissed the cases of Ivan Pantileev and Denis Oikhberg, signature collectors in support of the candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly Savva Fedoseev. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Yevgeny Kheifets, who represents the interests of activists in court.

The Moscow City Court left unchanged the preventive measure for the editors of the student magazine DOXA, reports the publication’s Telegram channel. Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natasha Tyshkevich will remain under a ban on certain activities until November 22: they can only leave the house for two hours a day and are prohibited from using communications. Alla Gutnikova is defended by OVD-Info lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov.

In the first six months of 2021, Russian courts of first instance received 17,053 cases of violation of the procedure for holding public events (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This follows from data released on October 18 by the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court. The courts considered 16,660 cases under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.