The Kurgan City Court fined 59-year-old Jehovah's Witness Anatoly Isakov half a million rubles, taking into account the believer's detention and reducing the fine to 400 thousand. This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". The court also ordered Isakov to pay procedural costs in the amount of 6,900 rubles. The prosecutor requested a suspended sentence of 6.5 years for him.

Punk rocker and activist Aikhal Ammosov (Igor Ivanov) has seen his health deteriorate in the Almaty pretrial detention center, No Future reported , citing a source. The young man attributes this to the quality of the prison gruel that prisoners are fed. The activist tries to abstain from such food and tries to exercise. In addition, the cell lacks clean water, normal food, mosquito coils and books.

Judge Albina Galimova of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow closed the trial of pensioner Konstantin Seleznev, who is accused of distributing military "fakes" motivated by political hatred (clause "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Mediazona. The hearings were closed at the request of the investigation.

The Moscow City Court has upheld a ruling to apply compulsory medical measures to eco-activist Olga Kuzmina , her lawyer reported. In August 2023 , the Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced her to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital on charges of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to a protest against renovation and tree felling.

The Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow has liquidated the Hans Waltz charitable foundation “Together Against Fascism,” SOTA reported . The Ministry of Justice filed a corresponding lawsuit in early June.

Moscow authorities did not allow local resident Maxim K. to hold a rally against the blocking of YouTube and the slowdown of hosting, reports “Beware, Moscow”. The event on Sakharov Avenue with up to 30,000 people was planned for August 17. The reason for the refusal that the Muscovite received from the mayor's office on August 7 was the ban on holding public events due to the epidemiological situation and COVID restrictions.

— Why did you decide to get married without waiting for Andrei to be released? — During his imprisonment, judges, bailiffs, investigators, and prosecutors constantly told me that I was nobody to him. They didn’t know the words “partner” or “girlfriend.” The judge threw me out of the courtroom because, in her opinion, I smiled at Andrey, and he smiled back at me. He was arrested in May 2021, the verdict was in the summer of 2022, and a year later, in the summer of 2023, we had a wedding.

Relatives of convicted high school student Yegor Balazeikin spoke about the pressure exerted on the teenager in the Arkhangelsk correctional colony. "Some of the colony's employees are making it clear to Yegor that he is a terrorist, provoking him to talk about military actions, talking about NATO and Banderites, and doing other dirty tricks," noted representatives of the case's support group.

Izhevsk blogger Konstantin Petrov said that the criminal case for insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code), initiated against him due to criticism of an excursion with monuments to the Great Patriotic War, was dropped. The man wrote about this on his VKontakte page, and the Sova Center drew attention to the post. The case was dismissed due to the lack of evidence of a crime with the right to rehabilitation.

On July 16, the Military Court of Appeal reduced by one month the sentence of 54-year-old Irkutsk resident Alexander Skvortsov, who had previously been sentenced to four years in a general regime penal colony in the case of a torn down Russian flag and several comments on the Internet. This was reported by the regional publication " i 38.ru ".

Khabarovsk Krai resident Zakhar Zaripov, who is in pretrial detention, has been diagnosed with cancer. This was reported by his lawyer Konstantin Bubon on his Facebook page. Zaripov has been in prison for a year and a half. In a conversation with OVD-Info, his lawyer clarified that the man was diagnosed with a tumor of the parotid salivary gland. Now Zaripov and his lawyer are seeking treatment.

More than fifty new “extremist organizations”, the death of Alexei Navalny, a prisoner exchange and the case of protests in Baymak: OVD-Info sums up the results of the first seven months of 2024. English version Exchange of prisoners with Western countries At the end of July and beginning of August, Russia, Belarus and three Western countries (USA, Germany, Slovenia) conducted a large-scale prisoner exchange.