Andrey Romanov, an activist and trade union leader from Magnitogorsk, who left Russia after being charged with calling for a violent overthrow of the government, has been granted political asylum in Finland. This was written on Facebook by the coordinator of the Human Corpus project Jenny Kurpen, who had previously left Russia for Finland due to persecution in connection with the Bolotnaya case.

The Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow decided to arrest civil activist Pavel Shekhtman in absentia. According to activists, the decision was made in the absence of a lawyer. Shekhtman is accused of inciting hatred and enmity in connection with a publication on social networks. In February, he was placed under house arrest, but was able to leave the country and end up in Ukraine.

The administration of Novosibirsk refused to hold a procession in the city center against the continuation of the war on the territory of Ukraine and the rise in prices due to military spending. Instead, the organizers were invited to walk along the Ob embankment or hold a rally near the State Public Scientific and Technical Library.

The activist, foreman of observers, head of the People's Council of the Tekstilshchiki district, Vadim Kozlovich, was charged under Art. 282 (inciting hatred or enmity). On the morning of April 10, as Vadim Tsybankov, an activist of the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, reports on Facebook, Kozlovich was searched, after which he was forcibly taken to the Kuzminsky Investigation Department.

Crimean journalist Tatyana Guchakova, who previously worked as deputy editor-in-chief of the BlackSeaNews portal, returned home from interrogation, where she was taken by FSB officers, who had previously conducted a long search of her house. "I'm fine. She returned home in the evening. How it was? Yes, as usual, a sufficient number of people in Crimea already have such an experience ((Now I have a big cleaning in the house ((" - writes Guchakova on Facebook.

On April 10, 2015, the OTD-Info publishes the report “Political Repressions in Russia in 2011-2014: extrajudicial persecution”. Emphasized persecution is a wide set of practices designed to impede the political or social activities of a particular person without the establishment of criminal or administrative cases on him. The practices used in the analyzed period can be divided into criminal and departmental.

On April 9, Putin introduced draft decisions to the Duma on the announcement and application of amnesty in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The alternative project of the amnesty was preparing before this in the bowels of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and suggested quite wide coverage.

In the Moscow District Military Court there is a process against Boris Stomakhin on the first part of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code - "Public calls for the implementation of terrorist activities." Only for the texts on the Internet and Samizdat with an extremely small reader's audience, Stomakhin had already received five years in prison (in 2006), and then six years and six months (in 2014). A new accusation threatens him for a period of two to five years behind bars.

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