The Saint Petersburg City Court upheld the decision to liquidate the Sfera charity foundation, which provides legal and psychological assistance to LGBTQ individuals. This was reported on the organization's website. "Legally, the fund will soon cease to exist," the organization noted . At the same time, the participants of "Sfera" emphasized that they do not intend to stop their work.

Supreme Court Judge Vladimir Khamenkov refused to transfer the second cassation appeal against the liquidation and ban of FBK for consideration to the Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases. This demand was made by lawyers representing the interests of Alexei Navalny’s associates, writes First Department.

The Supreme Court of Crimea approved the extension of the arrest of nurse and activist Irina Danilovich, accused of possession of explosives, until February 2023. The Crimean Process reports this. Danilovich is charged with the illegal manufacture and storage of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code). According to the FSB, the activist kept 200 grams of explosives in the lining of her glasses case. The defendant and her defense claim that the explosives were planted on her.

The Leninsky District Court of Grozny extended the arrest of Zarema Musaeva until December 12. About this writes the "team against torture." Zarem Musaeva is the mother of Chechen activists of Ibrahim and Abubakar Yangulbaev. In January, she was forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya, supposedly for interrogation in the fraud case (Article 159 of the Criminal Code) in the status of a witness.

The Moscow City Court approved the arrest of Alexandra Bayazitova, a journalist and author of the “Hell Grandmothers” telegram channel, who is suspected of extortion (clause “b”, part 3 of article 163 of the Criminal Code). SOTA writes about this. On August 10, the Kuzminsky District Court of Moscow sent the woman to a pre-trial detention center for two months.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list the former Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko, who was convicted in the case of an “undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared in the wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2021, the activist will be sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment, after consideration of the appeal, a sentence of up to three years of probation.

Politician Alexei Navalny was sent to -6 in the Vladimir region for the fourth time in a month. Information about this on his social networks. The penitentiary punishment cell appeared. This time the oppositionist was sent to a punishment cell for 15 days. It is unknown what caused this.

The 2nd Western District Military Court imposed a fine of 300 thousand rubles on a resident of Kstov (Nizhny Novgorod region) Andrey Rossiev under articles on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and inciting hatred (Clause “a” of Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code) due to comments on VKontakte. Information about this is on the court’s website, “Mediazona”. appeared and drew attention. The verdict was passed on August 23.

a city defender and member of the All-Russian Union of Public Opinion and Civil Protection Roman Tkach, , who is in a special detention center, went on a hunger strike: he insists that the judge who ordered his arrest was biased. This was announced by a lawyer from OVD-Info Evgeny Kurakin, who represents the interests of Tkach.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg found two picketers who came out to the building of the same court during the election of a preventive measure against politician Evgeny Roizman on August 25 guilty of violating the rally article. This was reported by the Evening Vedomosti publication. Andrei Deba came to the court with a poster “Freedom for Roizman!

Anarchist and defendant in a criminal case about justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) Denis Kozak left Russia. He spoke about this in his telegram channel on August 23, human rights activist Ivan Astashin was appointed to the post. told and drew attention to the initiation of a case against a 19-year-old anarchist in June.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Lipetsk Region has initiated a criminal case under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against a 60-year-old resident of the Oktyabrsky district of Lipetsk. Security forces searched his apartment.

A court in Kostroma found a 51-year-old Moscow resident guilty of vandalism (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) and fined him 40 thousand rubles for allegedly breaking the glowing letter Z in the city square. Relevant information from the press service of the investigative department of the regional Investigative Committee.

The Vologda City Court extended the period of detention of Vladimir Rumyantsev, a defendant in the case of “fake news” about the Russian army, until October 12. This was announced by Sergei Tikhonov, a lawyer representing his interests from OVD-Info. Rumyantsev is charged with publicly disseminating deliberately false information about the actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to posts about civilians killed in Ukraine.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center until December 20 for five Crimean Tatars who are involved in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case. “Crimean Solidarity” writes about this. The publication notes that the court itself invited the prosecutor to petition for an extension of the preventive measure for Enver Ametov, Osman Arifmemetov, Yashar Muedinov, Ruslan Suleymanov and Rustem Sheykhaliev.