On March 31, bailiffs began beating up listeners in the case of Ildar Dadin who refused to leave the broadcast room of the Moscow City Court. It is reported that one of the activists had his head smashed. Of the ten participants, six remained; the FSSP special forces were called. They are detained quite harshly. After forty minutes of proceedings, all the protesters were taken out of the building, Nikolai Players reported this.
An hour earlier, the Moscow City Court reduced by six months - to two and a half years in a general regime colony - the sentence of Ildar Dadin, accused of repeated violations of the procedure for holding public events.