Police detained Oskar Krasilnikov, a journalist for the Main Events news agency, at the entrance to his house. The security forces questioned him about his activism and then released him without a protocol. The journalist himself reported this to OVD-Info. The police waylaid Krasilnikov at the entrance, after which they took him to the police station in the Donskoy district.

The St. Petersburg City Court increased the amount of compensation for activist Lela Nordik for illegal detention to 20 thousand rubles. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov. Initially, the Smolninsky District Court decided to pay Nordik one thousand rubles, but she challenged this decision. On April 21, 2021, the girl was detained by police officers. They did not introduce themselves or explain to her the reason for the detention.

In St. Petersburg, employees of the Investigative Committee call those detained at anti-war rallies in February and invite them to become prosecution witnesses in the Vesna case. The First Department writes about this. According to the First Department, investigators consider the detained people to be citizens whose rights were encroached upon by those accused in the Viasna case. The Vesna telegram channel clarified that at least four people received calls.

The Snezhinsky City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region imposed a fine of 500 thousand rubles on Jehovah's Witness Ilya Olenin - the man was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. It was this punishment that the prosecution asked to impose during the debate.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested the artist Danila Tkachenko in absentia for two months due to a failed event dedicated to Victory Day. Lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova, who collaborates with OVD-Info, spoke about this. Tkachenko planned to release yellow and blue smoke during the Victory Parade in the center of Moscow using smoke bombs installed in air conditioners, but the action was stopped by FSB officers.

In Moscow, at the monument to Marshal Zhukov, a pensioner Valentina Velichkina was detained, who went out with a picket against deforestation on Mount Mashuk in the Stavropol Territory. This was announced by politician Yulia Galyamina in her telegram channel. According to Galyamina, in the morning Velichkina arrived from Mineralnye Vody to deliver a letter from local activists to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov. 16:40 The head of the Kitai-Gorod police department, A.

Activist Ismail Isaev, serving a sentence in a colony, was transferred to a punishment cell for 15 days. Miron Rozanov, press secretary of the SK SOS Crisis Group, reported this to OVD-Info. Isaev is in IK-11 in the Krasnodar Territory. As the prisoner told the group, the colony staff explained to him that being placed in an isolation ward was “normal” according to his article. Isaev has been there since July 21 and is due to leave on August 5.

On July 25, a court in St. Petersburg fined 26-year-old photographer Sergei Kondratiev under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code) 15 thousand rubles because of a video in which a young man kisses his partner against the backdrop of the Holy Trinity Church " Kulich and Easter. This was reported by the LGBT group "Exit".

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia upheld the ban of the Elista mayor's office on holding a rally in the center of the city, which human rights activist Semyon Ateev tried to approve. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". On July 23, the mayor's office of Elista refused Ateev to hold a rally in defense of the Russian Constitution and the rights of the Oirat-Kalmyk people on July 26 on the territory of the Seven Days Pagoda complex. The city court later upheld this decision.

On July 24, Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the publication After, as reported by the media itself. RKN restricted access to the site on the basis of Article 15.3 of Federal Law No. 149 “On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection,” which was amended at the end of 2021 to tighten censorship. “This repressive article has already been used to block hundreds of opposition and simply truthful media in Russia. And now, after two months of “After” work, our turn has come.