Aigul Makhmutova

On 15 December 2006, she was detained by officers of the Department of Internal Affairs of the South-East Administrative District. On 26 December, she was taken into custody by court order. On 5 February 2007, the Moscow City Court overturned the order of the Kuzminski court for her arrest. On 20 September, Makhmutova was detained by officers of the Ryazansky police department at an agreed picket, where she was participating as a reporter. At the police department, Makhmutova was severely beaten and taken to the hospital. On 7 February 2008, Makhmutova was arrested again in the criminal case from a year ago, as her preventive measure was suddenly changed based on a new application from the victim. On 8 February, Makhmutova was taken out of the pre-trial detention center by a police officer, served with papers, and taken to the Kuzminsky court, where she was arrested again. The court session was declared closed, citing the testimony of a witness who was a freelance police officer in the case file. The testimony of defense witnesses was ignored during the session. The prosecution witnesses were interested parties (friends, acquaintances, relatives of police officers), and many testimonies of the prosecution witnesses were fabricated "retroactively". On 18 June 2008, she was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment.

A case of extortion and insult was also initiated against Makhmutova. The trial was held with numerous procedural violations. The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict, and Makhmutova repeatedly lost consciousness during her transfer. In September 2008, she was sentenced (with the previous sentence being absorbed) to 5.5 years in prison. In 2010, the sentence was overturned, and the case was dismissed due to the absence of both the event and the corpus delicti of the offense, which allowed Makhmutova to be released on parole in 2011 after three and a half years of imprisonment. In 2012, the Investigative Committee reopened the investigation.

On 17 November 2017, the court returned the extortion case (the insult charge had been dropped by this point) back to the prosecutor's office. On 13 November 2020, Makhmutova was sentenced to five years in a general regime penal colony but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. On 26 October 2021, the cassation court reduced the sentence to four years and ten months.