The Rostov Regional Court held a regular hearing in the case of opera singer and COVID-dissident Vadim Cheldiev, who is accused of organizing a people's gathering against the self-isolation regime. His defense petitioned for the case to be returned to the prosecutor's office, based on the fact that the prosecution did not indicate the motive for the crime, but the court refused to return the case. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

Cancellation of the decision to close the public “Vagina Monologues”, blocking of the “Project” website and extension of the arrest of the father of the ex-director of FBK. We tell you the main news for October 28. The court in Khabarovsk overturned the decision to close the public page of artist Yulia Tsvetkova “Vagina Monologues”. In May, a group that published drawings of female genitalia was banned for “distributing pornography.” Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Proekt publication.

The military appeal court in Vlasikha, near Moscow, left unchanged the decision to extend the arrest of Vadim Bektemirov, a defendant in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Crimean Solidarity reports this. “It feels like the court is formally approaching the consideration of these complaints, with the same memorized phrases from the prosecutor that the accused can hide and interfere with the activities of the court,” Bektemirov’s defender, lawyer Marlen Khalikov, commented on the meeting.

The former head of Team 29, lawyer Ivan Pavlov, was put on the wanted list on September 20. He reports this on his Telegram channel. “On September 20, the investigator in my criminal case issued a decision to put me on the wanted list. Despite the fact that neither me nor my lawyers have been summoned to the investigator since July, and my whereabouts are not difficult to establish, just call me,” writes Pavlov.

The editor-in-chief of the publication “Voice” Igor Khoroshilov left his post of his own free will. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii. “As I understand it, the founder was intimidated by representatives of certain branches of government. And it definitely wasn’t Roskomnadzor. I myself wrote a letter of resignation from the post of editor-in-chief, it was my desire. The founder wanted to leave me in the media in a different capacity, but I refused,” Khoroshilov told the publication.

The Krasnodar Regional Court upheld the sentence of the deceased architect Mikhail Kalyamin, who had previously been given a two-year suspended sentence in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) due to statements on the Internet. The Caucasian Knot writes about this. Kalyamin died on August 12, a little more than a month after the verdict was announced . Fulfilling the will of the deceased, lawyer Timur Filippov filed an appeal.

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The Investigative Committee of Dagestan opened a criminal case on participation in an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) against a 45-year-old resident of Izberbash. He is suspected of involvement in the religious association Nurcular. this The department announces on its website.

Jehovah's Witness from the town of Vlasikha near Moscow, Sergei Ohanyan, has had his charges changed. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. The article on involvement in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) was excluded from the charge. Now Ohanyan is charged only with articles on organizing the activities of such an organization and participating in it (part 1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Chelyabinsk on October 22, two families of Jehovah's Witnesses were searched in a criminal case of extremism. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. Operational actions were carried out on 53-year-old Vadim Gizatulin and 52-year-old Irina Mikhailenko. Electronic devices and notebooks were confiscated from them, and then the believers and their relatives were taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation.

The Second Court of Cassation in Moscow upheld the decision on the legality of the expulsion of actionist Pavel Krisevich from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN). This is reported by “Apology of Protest”. The Court of Cassation thus agreed with the Moscow City and Gagarinsky District Courts, which had previously rejected Krisevich’s attempts to challenge the expulsion. He was expelled from the university in early December 2020.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol extended the term of detention of the ex-deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Nariman Dzhelal. This is reported by "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyer Nikolai Polozov. The politician will remain in custody until January 23, 2022. The investigative department of the FSB petitioned for an extension of the arrest.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don fined Adygea resident Daniil Ershov 30 thousand rubles for his comment about the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. The Caucasian Knot reports this with reference to the press service of the court. writes Ershov was found guilty under the article on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor requested 10 months in prison for blogger Ruslan Bobiev and his girlfriend Anastasia Chistova because of a photo with imitation of oral sex near St. Basil's Cathedral. It is reported by RIA Novosti. In the photo against the background of St. Basil's Cathedral, a girl in a police jacket sits in front of a young man with her back to the camera. The participants in the shooting are charged with insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code).

The Naryan-Mar City Court in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug extended the period of detention for Yuri Zhdanov, the father of the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov. His lawyer Vladimir Voronin reported this on Twitter. The court left the elderly Yuri Zhdanov in pre-trial detention until January 12, 2022. He has been in custody since the end of March.