On September 28, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow received a lawsuit from the Ministry of Justice for the liquidation of the Russian PEN Center, the Russian branch of the international human rights organization PEN Club. The statement of claim became known from a notice posted on the department’s website. The court scheduled a conversation for October 30. The Ministry of Justice does not specify what exactly the lawsuit is related to.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow granted the request of the investigation and extended the period of detention under house arrest of the administrator of the Moscow Calling telegram channel Andrey Kurshin as part of the case of “fake news” about the army based on political hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this appeared on the court's website. It is not yet known for how long the preventive measure was extended.

On October 19, the 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced 19-year-old Irkutsk activist Ilya Podkamenny to 12 years in prison. Mediazona reports this with reference to the press service of the court. The young man will serve the first three years of his sentence in prison, and the remainder in a maximum security colony. In addition to the actual sentence, he was also given a two-year probationary period.

Eight courts in seven regions received cases of “fakes” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and discrediting the army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info found this information on court websites. The Urzhumsky District Court of the Kirov Region registered a case under the article on the dissemination of “fakes” motivated by hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Andrei Etkeev.

A representative of the prosecutor's office demanded that the former head of Navalny's Dagestani headquarters, Eduard Atayev, be sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. this . reports The Caucasian Knot Atayev is accused of possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code), explosives (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code) and drugs (Part 1 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code).

The Military Court of Appeal commuted the sentence of the author of the telegram channel “Real Crime” Ruslan Ushakov - he was sentenced to seven years and ten months in a general regime colony. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Yulia Kuznetsova, who represents his interests. In addition to the actual sentence, the man was given a three-year ban on operating Internet resources.

The Chelyabinsk mayor's office refused to approve a mass picket of solidarity with the Palestinians. this in a telegram . reported The Union of Maoists of the Urals, whose representatives announced the event, In their response, officials said that the proposed site would be “busy” on the specified date, without specifying what kind of event should be held there. Both city Hyde Parks were also “busy,” according to officials.

Lyudmila Razumova, sentenced to seven years under articles about military “fakes” and vandalism, spoke about the pressure in the colony. In addition, some of her letters are intercepted. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, Andrei Donskoy. IK-5 in the Tver region is engaged in sewing special clothing. Those prisoners from whose personal account funds cannot be debited for their maintenance are forced to work a lot for little pay.

In Khabarovsk, police detained a participant in an open-ended picket in defense of Sergei Furgal and all political prisoners Zigmund Khudyakov. Activatika reports this. “I am against war, against murder, against theft on a state scale, for the election of power, naturally the authorities don’t like all this,” the activist answered the journalist’s question why he went to Komsomolskaya Square in Khabarovsk.

The case on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Tula resident Sergei Sosov was sent to court. this The prosecutor's office of the Tula region reports . In June 2021, Sosov used Photoshop to attach a portrait of Adolf Hitler to a photo with members of the Immortal Regiment and published it on VKontakte. The security forces became interested in the post only two years later. During a search of the man's house, all equipment was confiscated.

The prosecutor's office asked to replace the fine of Memorial co-chairman Oleg Orlov with three years in prison. This was reported by Memorial's telegram channel. This is the maximum punishment according to the first edition of the first part of the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code).

Convicted Jehovah's Witness Adam Svarichevsky, serving his sentence in IK-31 in the Primorsky Territory, was transferred on October 5 to a cell-type facility for two months. about this with reference to his wife Galina . writes A portal covering the persecution of believers According to the woman, she had no contact with her husband for a long time - letters from him did not arrive, calls and scheduled visits were not provided.