A support group for Ural anti-fascists arrested in the case of a terrorist community spoke about the obstacles faced by their lawyers and relatives. Message in the “Tyumen Business” telegram channel. published in early September that massive searches were carried out at local anti-fascists in Tyumen, Surgut and Yekaterinburg, and six people were taken into custody. Three of them spoke about the use of force against them even after their arrest. torture and violence became known.

source familiar with the case materials A new criminal case was opened against St. Petersburg resident Oleg Belousov, who is accused of distributing “fake news” about the army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), about calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info reported this. The specific reason for initiating the case is still unknown, but the source claims that it, like the first, is related to comments on social networks.

The Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region overturned the verdict of Jehovah's Witnesses - spouses Oleg and Agnessa Postnikov, and their case was sent for a new trial. This is a portal covering the persecution of believers in Russia; information about the hearing is also on the court website. writes appeared In April, Oleg and Agnessa Postnikov received five and a half and five years of suspended imprisonment, respectively.

The Third Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in St. Petersburg upheld the sentence of Ilya Pershin, a defendant in the “palace case,” who was previously sentenced to three years in a penal colony. Pershin’s lawyer reported this to OVD-Info. In September 2021, a young man was tried in St. Petersburg for using violence against a riot police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) at a January rally in support of Alexei Navalny.

The Southern District Military Court extended the arrest of the Crimean Tatar Raif Fevziev until January 23, 2023. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The defense asked the court to place him under house arrest. “I have stable social ties: my wife, children, parents, relatives - which never let me go anywhere,” Fevziev himself said in his speech. Raif Fevziev is an imam who was detained in Sevastopol and taken into custody in August 2021 along with four other Crimean Tatars.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights refused to allow Russian NGOs to review the ruling in the “foreign agency” case. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation. In June, the ECHR issued a ruling on a complaint from 73 Russian NGOs, in which it found that recognizing them as “foreign agents” violates the right to freedom of association (Article 11 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms).

On the morning of October 11, searches were carried out in Vladivostok at the girlfriends of local resident Venya Shishkin, against whom a case had previously been opened under the article on justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). Friends of the girls reported this to OVD-Info. Security forces conducted searches in the homes of Ekaterina Goryachenko, the mother of Shishkin’s underage girlfriend Zabava, and Valeria Shcherbina, another friend of Shishkin.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against 60-year-old Irina Tsybaneva because of a note left on the grave of Vladimir Putin’s parents. Mediazona talks about this with reference to the woman’s son Maxim Tsybanev. writes According to appointed lawyer Sergei Trusov, the St. Petersburg woman is charged with an article about desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places, committed on the grounds of political enmity (clause “b”, part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code).

Alexei Navalny was again placed in a punishment cell (punishment cell) in correctional colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region. This was reported in the politician’s Telegram channel. Navalny was placed in a punishment cell for 14 days - this is the sixth time he has been sent to an isolation ward. In this case, the reason was the prisoner’s refusal to wash the fence. The politician commented on this demand: “Well, I understand, painting a fence and feeling like Tom Sawyer is cool.

In Kazan, police officers in civilian clothes searched a store that sold merchandise from the online magazine for students “Groza.” The magazine's telegram channel is about this. reports Store employees told Groza that several people in civilian clothes came to them following an anonymous complaint, provided screenshots of references to stickers and conducted a search. It is not yet known in what criminal case the investigative actions were carried out.

Rosfinmonitoring contributed to the “Spring” movement and Meta Platforms Inc. (parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) to the list of terrorists and extremists. Relevant information is on the department's website. published The youth movement “Spring” has existed since 2013. After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, movement activists regularly held anti-war protests. In September, the St.

The city court of St. Petersburg canceled the arrest of activist Anastasia Filippova. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Sergey Podolsky, who represents her interests. The girl was released from the temporary detention center, the materials were sent for a new consideration. On October 4, Filippova was detained at a bus stop, and employees of the Center for Combating Extremism took away her phone. In police station No.

Human rights activist Vladislav Nikitenko, who is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of the Amur Region in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), was registered as a terrorist and extremist. Sibir.Realii talks about this with reference to a friend of the human rights activist. is reported Nikitenko to have been placed on preventive registration twice.

In Kazan, security forces searched the home of anti-war activist Vera Otreshko. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. A smartphone and a non-working netbook were confiscated from the girl. It is still unknown under what article the investigative actions were carried out. Presumably, a criminal case was initiated due to the creation of a video on YouTube about Poland and Belarus. Otreshko is in the status of a witness.

In Blagoveshchensk (Amur region), near the building of the regional government and parliament, police detained a man who went out in a single picket with a poster in support of the arrested United Russia deputy Alexander Sinkov. reports SOTA . The man came out with a poster "What did Sinkov do to you?" What is charged and where the detainee was taken is still unknown.