Lawyer of the “Team Against Torture” (CAT) Olga Sadovskaya during an interview with Katerina Gordeeva about the death of 1ADAT telegram chat moderator Salman Tepsurkaev, who was kidnapped and tortured in 2020. This information was provided by representatives of the popular movement and the 1ADAT telegram channel. stated confirmed “We have no hope left that Salman is alive.

At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the VKontakte social network blocked the page of the St. Petersburg activist Alexander Chirkov, who left Russia. He himself told the OVD-Info about this. According to Chirkov, in the publication, due to which his page was blocked, it was about the proposal to compile a list of countries-enemies of terrorism.

The Nikolaevsky District Court of the Ulyanovsk Region sentenced four local residents to suspended sentences in the case of the Tablighi Jamaat movement. Information and Analytical Center "Sova" brings this to your attention. appealed M. Rafikov was accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), and S. Salkin, A. Shabanov and M. Sadykov were accused of participating in it (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Opposition activist from Udmurtia and former ally of Navalny, Mikhail Sokolov, told the media about how he collaborated with the FSB for six years after being recruited by the intelligence service. An interview with him was published by the publication “Layout”. According to Sokolov, he was recruited in 2016, at the age of 19. At that time, he had already participated in opposition actions and headed a branch of the Leninist Communist Youth Union.

The Ministry of Justice excluded Polina Kostyleva, coordinator of the association of voters “Voice” in St. Petersburg, from the register of media “foreign agents”. Information about this is on the department's website.

A defendant in the “anti-war cause”, Vyacheslav Koshelev, carried out a three-day dry hunger strike due to the conditions of detention in pre-trial detention center No. 5 in the Volgograd region. The publication “Caucasus.Realities” is about this. The Volzhsky City Court reported on August 5 that the activist was forced into a psychiatric hospital. While he is appealing the decision, he is in a pre-trial detention center, where he was placed in a cell with another convict.

The St. Petersburg City Court canceled the fine and dismissed the case of a local resident, Isa Isaev, who was detained at a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on April 21, 2021. Isaev's interests were represented in court by lawyer Elena Fadeeva, who works with OVD-Info. The City Court made such a decision due to the fact that the statute of limitations for bringing to responsibility had expired.

The magistrate of court district No. 117 of St. Petersburg sentenced local resident Nikita Chirkov to a year of restriction of freedom under the article of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). Information about this is in the telegram channel of the joint press service of the city courts.

Human rights activist from Moscow Irina Putilova left Russia. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. The reason for leaving was political persecution after in the Open Space and at the human rights activist’s house. A search of Putilova as part of a criminal case under the article of hooliganism motivated by political and ideological hatred (clause “b”, part 1 of article 213 of the Criminal Code).

An FSB officer offered the arrested author of the telegram channel “Protest MSU” Dmitry Ivanov to slander someone in exchange for a shorter sentence. Ivanov’s letter is quoted by the telegram channel “Prison Moscow State University”. A week before the activist’s birthday , an “incredibly fashionable FSB officer” came to see him in pre-trial detention center No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina,” writes Ivanov.

In the Rostov region on August 22, security forces detained five alleged followers of the Union of Slavic Forces of Rus', and their houses were searched. The Southern News Service reported this with reference to an unnamed source; the portal does not report the names of those detained.

The former head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years and 6 months in prison, went on a hunger strike in pre-trial detention center No. 5 of the Moscow region due to the fact that he was not receiving medical assistance. This is what SOTA is about. reports Shestun is seeking an inguinal hernia operation, which he was denied, citing the lack of a blood test for HIV.

Criminal cases have been opened against eight hosts of the YouTube show "Popular Politics", created by associates of Alexei Navalny, for disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and justifying terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Telegram channel "Sirena".

The Central District Court of Voronezh sentenced civil activist Grigory Severin to two years in a penal colony - he was found guilty under the article on calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of a post on VKontakte. Severin’s wife reported this to OVD-Info. At the moment, the interlocutor of OVD-Info does not know the exact location of her husband. She added that the defense intends to appeal the verdict.

The prosecutor's office asked for five years in a general regime colony for the spouses Anastasia Safonova and Dmitry Tsibukovsky, anarchists persecuted because of the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.” Lawyer Pavel Chikov spoke about this in his telegram channel with reference to lawyers Olga and Andrey Lepekhin in the courtroom. reports Chelyabinsk anarchists are accused of hooliganism based on political enmity (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).