Main political repression news in Russia for 15 October

—Four Crimean Tatar women have been detained in connection with the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Tomorrow, a pre-trial restraint will be chosen for Esme Nimetulaeva, Nasibe Saidova, Elviza Alieva and Fevziye Osmanova.

—A woman from Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterina Fatyanova, who was sentenced to two years for distributing newspapers, has been hospitalised in Norilsk with a hypertensive crisis and kidney inflammation.

—In the office of Piter FM radio, a man from Kazakhstan was detained after shouting anti-war slogans.

—An activist from Tyumen region, Luiza Shamsutdinova, was fined over posts about Siberia joining Russia.

—At a university in Yaroslavl, a city north-east of Moscow, a student was detained after attending classes in women’s clothing.

—A court has arrested politician Ilya Yashin in absentia in a case over alleged participation in an extremist organisation.

—Former MP Alexey Gorinov, who is serving his sentence in a penal colony, has been placed on a special watch list as 'prone to arson'.