In Moscow, near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office, Vera Shikhova was again detained, who regularly holds single pickets demanding social support for her son, a miner, who was injured at work. She herself reported this to OVD-Info. The woman was taken to the Tverskoy district police department. It is not yet known what offense she is charged with. The son of a picketer, Alexander Shikhov, was injured in an accident at the Ziminka mine in Prokopyevsk in 2010.

In the Saratov region in early October, searches were carried out at the homes of members of the AllatRa religious movement founded in Ukraine, which had previously been declared an “undesirable organization.” TASS reports this with reference to the press service of the regional FSB Directorate.

The defendant in the Viasna case, Evgeniy Zateev, refused to confess and called them self-incrimination. He spoke about this in his letter, which was published by the support group. “My mistake, my cross and pain lie in admitting guilt in my case,” the young man wrote. He said that he decided to admit guilt after he was sent to pre-trial detention in June 2023.

“It’s unlikely that the rector thought for a long time: I was fired” In 2014, I was fired from the university for the first time. I have a video where I analyze the situation with Crimea from the point of view of international law (we are talking about the annexation of Crimea - OVD-Info ). There were no [political] statements, only analysis. Every university in Russia has a special person affiliated with the FSB.

The Sukhinichi District Court of the Kaluga Region placed two girls who had made TikToks in a cemetery in the Juvenile Detention Center for 15 days and placed them on preventive registration. This was reported by the press service of the regional courts, and Mediazona drew attention to this.

Blogger and activist Alina Lushavina complained to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov about the conditions in the pre-trial detention center at women's penal colony No. 15 in the Samara region. The complaint was published by the Independent Association of Doctors, and Idel.Realii drew attention to it. Lushavina was diagnosed with severe vascular disease. The therapist in the pre-trial detention center refused to give her the necessary medications.

Activist Rafail Shepelev, kidnapped in Georgia, said at the first hearing in the case that he was lured from Tbilisi to South Ossetia by fake SBU agents. This is reported by It's my city. The man was interrogated at the first hearing in the case of participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) and justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) in the Central District Military Court.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put on the wanted list Natalya Baranova, a journalist and former content editor of the educational project “Greenhouse of Social Technologies.” She is located outside Russia and found “Mediazona” in the ministry’s database. Baranova was added to the wanted database no later than September 24; her card contains the telephone number of the Kirov Ministry of Internal Affairs department.

In Ryazan, security forces came to search the home of a medical worker because of a chat in which doctors discussed supporting colleagues arrested on political matters, her husband, who requested anonymity for security reasons, told OVD-Info. According to the man, four masked riot police first laid him face down on the floor, and in addition to them, a policeman, two FSB officers and two witnesses, who were volunteers belonging to a certain movement “Rus”, took part in the search.

An independent examination of the causes of death of the person involved in the “Baymak” case, Rifat Dautov, established that he could have been severely beaten before his death. The results of the study were published by Idel.Realities.