On November 3, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow refused to appeal the status of “foreign agent” to journalist Andrei Afanasyev, who collaborates with the publications SOTA and Radio Liberty. This is what SOTA is about.

The Leninsky District Court in Vladimir, by decision of the military prosecutor's office, blocked some links leading to materials from LiveJournal, the Azerbaijani publication Media.az, the portal Confession.com and The Moscow Times. Information about this is on the court’s website, pay attention to it “Argument”. appeared drew The links contained information on how to avoid mobilization. and the materials have already been removed. Links to sites and reminders are still available.

The mother of Albert Shafiyev, who was sentenced in 2017 to 16 years in a strict regime prison, told SOTA that her son disappeared while being transported to Orenburg. In 2017, Shafiev was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of a terrorist organization (part 1 of article 205.5 of the Criminal Code): the security forces considered him involved in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bashkortostan.

The FSB completed a criminal investigation under articles on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against a resident of the city of Artem (Primorsky Territory) Alexander Poletaev. Poletaev himself informed OVD-Info about this.

On November 3, the person involved in the “palace case,” Valery Evsin, was released from IK-2 in the village of Kryuki, Pskov region. The telegram channel “Prisoners 212” is about this. In April 2021, Evsina was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony under the article of violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

In Kursk, a search was conducted in the rented apartment of David Eichendorf, who served his sentence in the “anti-war case.” He himself told OVD-Info about this. Investigative actions also took place in the apartment of Eichendorf’s friend, where he registered the latter. All equipment was confiscated from the young people. It is unknown what caused the security forces’ visit. Eichendorff was detained in Tyumen on May 6. The security forces came to his home.

The UN Human Rights Committee has prepared a review of human rights violations occurring in Russia. Before this, the Russian delegation failed to come to the UN three times to discuss human rights issues in the country. OVD-Info lawyers sent alternative reports to the UN Human Rights Committee three times and participated in the Committee's review.

In Adygea, the Maykop prosecutor’s office declared the placement in a pre-trial detention center of Mayak movement activist Roman Taganov, convicted in an “anti-war case,” illegal. “Caucasus.Realities” is about this. The department submitted a proposal to the decision of the city court to change the preventive measure: on October 3, a man was taken into custody from house arrest due to malfunctions of the tracking bracelet.

The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has published its concluding observations on the state of human rights in Russia: in them it called for the complete repeal of laws on “fake news” and discrediting the Russian army, and also recommended for the first time to refrain from using facial recognition systems.