In Iran, 582 people were executed for 2022. This is 249 more than in 2021. It is reported by Deutsche Welle with reference to human rights organizations Iran Human Rights and Together Against the Death Penalty. Human rights also reported the opacity of sentences. The sentences are about 88% of all executions and 99% of those related to narcotic articles were not published by the authorities.

Roskomnadzor approved the criteria for the law on “LGBT propaganda”; the department published a corresponding order on the official Internet portal of legal information. The criteria will come into force on September 1, 2023 and will remain in effect for six years.

In Perm, Maxim Tarasov, a student at the Ural Compound school, was detained for three hours for demanding the return of his personal pepper spray. Tarasov himself told DOXA about this. According to him, after a verbal altercation with other schoolchildren, Tarasov felt the need to carry a pepper spray with him, which he handed in before the start of classes. In response to demands to return it, the student was sent to the principal. She did not talk to him and called the Russian Guard.

The Air of Karelia festival canceled the performance of the group NAIV, whose lead singer had previously appeared on stage wearing a Masha Moskaleva T-shirt and spoke about the criminal prosecution of Alexei Moskalev. This was reported in the festival’s Telegram channel. “Friends, two news: sad and happy. Sad: for reasons beyond our control and the group’s (smart people understand everything), “NAIV” will not be able to take part in the festival.

The deadliest conflict of 2022 was the Ethiopian Civil War, The Economist reports, citing the Crisis Group and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, who assisted in peace negotiations. According to various sources, in the two years of war since 2020, the war has claimed the lives of up to 600 thousand people. Armed confrontation between the federal government of Ethiopia and the authorities of the autonomous region of Tigray broke out in November 2020.

The Commission on Minor Affairs of the city administration of Efremov published a statement that it is allegedly withdrawing the claim to limit the parental rights of the parents of Masha Moskaleva - father Alexei Moskalev, who was sentenced to two years in prison for his anti-war position, and mother Olga Sitchikhina, who did not take part in raising the child and did not live with the family. Moskalev’s defender in this case, Ekaterina Gordon, confirmed that the lawsuit was withdrawn.

Alexey Moskalev’s lawyers have not been able to establish his whereabouts for six days. Earlier it became known about his extradition from Belarus. Moskalev’s lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov told “We Can Explain” about this. According to him, there is no documentary evidence of his extradition to Russia. “If he was extradited, then he may be on the way to the pre-trial detention center in the city of Tula,” Zakhvatov said. Alexei Moskalev was detained in Belarus on March 30.

The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict against politician Ilya Yashin. Previously, the Meshchansky court sentenced Yashin to 8.5 years in prison in the case of distribution "fake" about the Russian army. The reason for opening a case against Yashin was a live broadcast , during which he spoke about the killings of civilians by the Russian military in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

Since 2013, the Nigerian military has made at least 10 thousand forced abortions from women and girls captured by the Islamic rebels of the Boko Haram and became pregnant from them. In addition, the army killed children in rebel areas because of the belief that they would fight against the government in the future. The government commission began investigation after Reuters reports.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Nina Ostanina (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), wrote a denunciation to the Minister of Internal Affairs Kolokoltsev on DOXA. She asked to check our post about how not all children cisgender , for violation of the law on “LGBT propaganda”. We talk about Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, protests and repression.

Over the past five years, the number of political prisoners in Russia has tripled. This is reported in the Memorial report. According to a report by a human rights organization, as of September 1, 2018, the list of political prisoners included 183 people, and as of April 5, 2023, the names of 558 people were recorded on the list. As of April 5, 2023, at least 48 people are imprisoned in connection with their anti-war protests.

The Russian army attacked eight regions of Ukraine. In total, four people were killed and 17 injured as a result of the shelling. In Volchansk, Kharkov region, residential buildings, outbuildings and a market came under fire. As a result of the hit, a 50-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman were killed, and another couple and two women were also injured.