The Central District Court of Novosibirsk awarded compensation for moral damage in the amount of two thousand rubles to Daria Gorbyleva, who was detained at a rally in support of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal. Lawyer Vasily Dubkov told OVD-Info about this. Gorbyleva and 29 other people were detained in January 2021 during the “feeding the pigeons” event, which took place in support of Furgal.

Volunteer of the trans-initiative group “T-Action” Tyler Nazarov left Russia due to his name being included in the unified register of “foreign agents” as a participant or founder of the group. This is what “Paper” is about. T-Action reports to the register of unregistered associations - “foreign agents” on November 25. entered “I saw on the news that “T-Action” was added to the register. I went to the Ministry of Justice website and saw my name.

In Chuvashia, a supporter of “Citizens of the USSR” Elvira Paeva was arrested on charges of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) due to posts on VKontakte. The “Angry Chuvashia” telegram channel is about this. reports The case against Paeva was opened in June, as follows from her videos on her own YouTube channel.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled to pay compensation of 3,900 euros to Yuli Asoyan, who was detained at the “He’s not Dimon for you” protest in 2017. This was reported by the telegram channel “Full PC 2.0”. The man’s interests in the complaint “Asoyan and Verbovaya v. Russia” were represented by lawyers from Memorial and OVD-Info. The ECHR found that Russia violated Asoyan’s right to a fair trial (Article 6 of the Human Rights Convention).

The Leninsky District Court of Perm dismissed the case of the Other Russia activist Maya Toropova under the article on the organization of an uncoordinated action (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by Maria Tillert, who represented the interests of the activist with the support of OVD-Info. The court did not see the elements of the offense in Toropova's actions.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia approved the indictment in the criminal case of “fakes” about the Russian Army (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against journalist Alexander Nevzorov. The department talks about this in its telegram channel. reported The case against Nevzorov was initiated due to materials about the Russian attack on a maternity hospital in Mariupol and the killings of civilians, which the journalist posted on Instagram, telegram and YouTube.

The Qualification Commission of the Moscow Bar Association recommended terminating disciplinary proceedings against lawyers Katerina Tertukhina and Irina Ryabinina. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represented Tertukhina’s interests. Disciplinary proceedings against Tertukhina and Ryabinina were initiated after a court hearing in the case of environmental activist Olga Kuzmina, which took place on August 9.

The State Duma in the second reading adopted amendments to the bills that change the rules of the Code of Administrative Offenses regarding "foreign agents". According to them, in particular, fines for “foreign agents” and members of “foreign agent” associations are being tightened. Also in the State Duma amended the criminal law on "foreign agents" This was reported on the website of the State Duma.

In the Surgut region of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, police detained shaman and environmental activist Sergei Kechimov, who opposes oil extraction in the vicinity of Lake Imlor, sacred to the Khanty. This was reported by the project “Russia of Indigenous Peoples” with reference to the wife of the detainee.

The Saratov Regional Court approved the decision to block the Tor browser on Google Play and The Tor Project website. This is reported by the Roskomsvoboda project, whose lawyer Ekaterina Abashina represents the interests of The TorProject in court. The Leninsky District Court of Saratov banned the browser in July at the suit of the prosecutor's office. Among the reasons for the ban, it was indicated that Tor allows access to materials blocked in the Russian Federation.

The health of the Crimean activist and nurse Irina Danilovich, who is in a pre-trial detention center on charges of possession of explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code), has significantly deteriorated due to the conditions of detention. The human rights organization “CrimeaSOS” talks about this.

Three comments for which he had previously been brought to administrative responsibility were removed from the charges in one of the criminal cases against activist Andrei Rossiev. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Kristina Tyurina, who represents the interests of the activist. The initiation of a new criminal case against Rossiev became known in November.

It has become known what exactly the civil activist from Novosibirsk, Elena Tardasova-Yun, is being charged with, who is being prosecuted in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Elena Chirkina, who represents her interests.

On August 16, the magistrate of Blagoveshchensk City Court District No. 1 sentenced local resident Pavel Kambolin to ten months of restriction of freedom under the article of vandalism motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) because of five anti-war graffiti. Relevant information on the court's website. published About the initiation of the case at the end of March.

On July 7, the magistrate of court district No. 208 of the Pushchinsky judicial district of the Moscow region sentenced local resident Vasily Koretsky to one and a half years of restriction of freedom under the article on vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). He himself reported this to OVD-Info, the text of the verdict is on the court’s website. The decision came into force on July 19.