The Supreme Court of Crimea reduced the term of imprisonment of Ukrainian journalist and freelancer for “Krym.Realii” Vladislav Esipenko by a year. “Grati” about this. they write The reason was the confession given by Esipenko. The court found that in this way the journalist “actively contributed” to solving the crime. In February, the Simferopol District Court sentenced Esipenko to six years in a general regime colony and a fine of 110 thousand rubles.

In the Kaluga region, a court found a 22-year-old resident of the city of Maloyaroslavets guilty under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony. Information about this is on the website of the Investigative Committee.

The VKontakte holding, by decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked the group “Freedom of speech in Russia”, which was administered by the Samara civilian activist Alexander Esin. He himself informed the OVD-Info about this.

The Investigative Committee of the Murmansk Region has completed its investigation into the case of a Jehovah's Witness born in 1976 from Apatity, who is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The department writes about this on its website. We are probably talking about Denis Merkulov, against whom a criminal case was opened in mid-July. The believer's case has been brought to court.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow left unchanged the sentence of the defendant in the “palace case” Maria Chugunova - eight months in a general regime colony. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, who wished to remain anonymous. Chugunova's verdict in mid-May. The woman was found guilty of blocking roads during protests in support of Alexei Navalny on February 2, 2021 (Part 1 of Article 267 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 2 of Article 35 of the Criminal Code).

The prosecutor's office requested two and a half years in a general regime colony for 12 Ingush ex-policemen who stood in a line between protesters and the National Guard at a rally on March 27, 2019 in Magas, in order to prevent clashes. Information about this appeared in the telegram channel "Full PC 2.0".

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the preventive measure for the defendant in the “anti-war case” Victoria Petrova - the girl will remain in pre-trial detention until at least September 23. About this SOTAvision. writes: At the meeting, the defense added 53 guarantees for Petrova to the case, and also asked the court to change her preventive measure to house arrest. “We asked to release Vika on bail of 1 million rubles and to assign my apartment as her place of residence.

In the city of Usinsk (Komi Republic), the security forces detained two residents of the village of Novikboozh Nadezhda Panchenko and Galina Chupurova, who came out with single pickets against oil production. About this OVD-Info told Chupurova. According to Chupurova, the action lasted about 15 minutes, the girls stood 70 meters from each other. The security forces detained the pickets after they turned the posters.

In the Kaluga region, the FSB is conducting a search in the apartment of anti-fascist Andrei Polyakov. About this with reference to sources close to the situation, Antifa.ru. writes What the search is connected with is still unknown. There is no connection with Polyakov. This is the second search in the apartment of an anti-fascist in six months.

Deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council Helga Pirogova, who left Russia due to persecution due to her anti-war position, was put on the interstate wanted list. Kommersant reported this with reference to a representative of the prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region. reports The search was announced within the framework of the agreement of the CIS member states. The department also noted that the investigation is considering the issue of reclassifying Pirogova’s criminal case.

I left the colony a little over a week ago. In prison you live in such a way that it is simply impossible to think about release all the time, to plan something - you will go crazy. Therefore, everything goes as it goes. And the day of liberation is the same ordinary day as any other. When you are met by friends, relatives, close people with whom we went all this way with the trash heap , even strangers come to support you - it’s incredible.

On August 16, the Sixth Court of Cassation in Samara confirmed the illegality of tightening the conditions of detention of Viktor Filinkov, convicted in the Network case. The RUPRESSION telegram channel is about this. The Orenburg Regional Court informs the Illegal that Filinkov has been placed in and in a punishment cell (punishment cell), as well as recognizing him as a “malicious offender.” The administration of correctional colony No.

In Vladivostok, the Ninth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction approved the suspended sentence assigned to Alexei Vorsin, a defendant in the “palace case” and ex-coordinator of Navalny’s Khabarovsk headquarters. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Vitaly Tykhta, who represents Vorsin in court.

Kolomna activist Vyacheslav Yegorov, who opposed the construction of the Volovichi landfill, left the colony on August 8. In October 2021, the court found him guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding actions (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to a year and three months in a penal colony. We are publishing Yegorov's story about how his life changed after his release. I got out of prison a little over a week ago.