The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Vladimir Vorontsov, the founder of the human rights project “Police Ombudsman,” to five years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty on charges of extortion and production of pornography. RBC about this. Vorontsov was also stripped of the rank of police major and banned for 10 years from engaging in activities related to the administration of websites and other resources on the Internet.

The Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of lawyer Dmitry Talantov, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, to place him under arrest in a pre-trial detention center. This is what “First Section” is about. reports “The court ignored the legal arguments of the defenders,” the report says. 61-year-old Talantov will remain in pre-trial detention until at least August 21.

Arsen Abkhairov, who is serving a sentence in the Krasnovardeyskaya case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, developed varicose veins in prison. His wife Aziza told Crimean Solidarity about this. reported The man also told his wife that he suffered from swelling and pain in his legs. According to her, varicose veins developed due to the strict conditions of detention: due to getting up at 6 am and going to bed at 10 pm, he is constantly on his feet. The man is in Prison-2 in Yeniseisk (Krasnoyarsk Krai).

The Office : Information of the Mash Siberia channel on administrative arrest Vitaly Botenko was not confirmed. After the promotion with garbage bags, the police detained the man, subsequently the security forces "handed it to doctors." Information about this is published by “7 × 7” with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Novosibirsk Ministry of Health refused to give information about where Botenko is now, referring to the law on medical secrets.

A case was opened against Tomsk journalist and politician Alexey Shitik under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this is in the Asino Forest Patrol channel, which is hosted by Shitik. appeared The man said that on August 1, FSB officers came to his parents’ apartment in Asino (Tomsk region) with a search and confiscated all mobile devices. Shitik himself left Russia in 2018.

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the decision by which local resident Alexey Koshkarov was found guilty under the article on organizing mass simultaneous presence of citizens in public places (Part 1 of Article 20.2.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Elena Fadeeva. In 2021, the Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles on an activist due to his arrest at a rally for the release of politician Alexei Navalny.

The Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory opened a criminal case for calls for terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against an 18-year-old resident of Norilsk. The department talks about this on its website. reports The young man is charged with publishing “videos with calls to action of a terrorist nature […] during the celebration of Victory Day.” This is not the first time a young man has been criminally prosecuted.

In Tula, a criminal case was opened against 38-year-old local resident Andrei Pavlov for discrediting the Russian army (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. writes The reason for the case was Pavlov’s publications on the Internet, what was discussed in them is not specified.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory) Roman Balyasin, who tried to paint over the letter Z, for violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). At the same time, according to the man, the security forces themselves attacked him. Balyasin told Taiga.info about what happened.

English version On July 11, it became known that the Moscow prosecutor’s office asked the Moscow City Court to liquidate the “Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers” and to suspend its activities until the end of the proceedings.

The Fourth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Krasnodar has approved two years in prison for Jehovah's Witness from the village of Kholmskaya, Aleksandr Shcherbina. This was reported by the website "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia". reports on the initiation of a case against Shcherbina on December 2, 2020. At that time, the believer's home was searched. During the investigation, the man was under a written undertaking not to leave.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow fined the writer Viktor Shenderovich 10 thousand rubles under the article on failure to fulfill the duties of a “foreign agent” (part 1 of article 19.34.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this . writes The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, The report on Shenderovich was drawn up at the end of June due to the lack of labeling of the media as a “foreign agent” in posts on his personal Telegram channel.

On August 1, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Kirill Evstigneev: three years of suspended imprisonment. Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia write about this. The 42-year-old believer maintains his innocence.

A picket line next to the building of the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs in support of the detained Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov, a psychological support group for journalists and the first discussions about harassment in the journalistic community - the interregional public organization “Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers” is behind all this.