On April 21, the State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill specifying the deadlines for filing a notice of holding a public event and allowing the filing of a notice before long holidays. The text of the document is published in the Automated System for Legislative Activity Support.

On April 22, the Kievsky District Court of Simferopol chose Eskender Nebiev, a cameraman of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, who is accused in the case of clashes in Simferopol on February 26, 2014, as a preventive measure in the form of detention. According to the court decision, Nebiev will be in custody until June 20. This was reported to the publication "Crimea. Realii” lawyer of the accused Jemil Temishev.

The organization "Open Russia" appealed to the court with a complaint about the search conducted on April 16 in its office in Moscow. As Radio Liberty reports on April 22, citing lawyer Sergei Badamshin, Open Russia is appealing both the course of the search and, in general, the legality of its conduct.

On June 5, 2014, the police officers who arrested eco-activist Sergei Loshkarev in Novocherkassk tried to plant a gun on him. As the "Caucasian Knot" writes on April 22, this was stated on April 20 at the first hearing in the case of Loshkarev, accused of illegal possession of weapons, by Taisiya Kisenko, who was walking along the street and became a witness to the detention.

On April 22, bailiffs detained FBK lawyer Ivan Zhdanov during an appeal against the refusal to register the local branch of the Party of Progress and held him for at least an hour without explanation. According to Zhdanov, bailiffs approached him in the hallway after the judge left to prepare a decision. “I was sitting cross-legged,” the lawyer said.

The North Caucasus District Military Court found Aleksey Chirniy, a defendant in the Crimean Terrorists Case, guilty, and sentenced him to seven years in a strict regime colony. Chirniy pleads guilty and cooperated with the investigation, the process took place in one day and in a special order.

In Simferopol, Eskender Nebiev, the operator of the Crimean Tatar TV channel ATR, was detained for participating in the clashes in 2014, which was closed after the annexation of Crimea by Russia, reports Radio Liberty . Nabiev was detained after a search of his house.

OVD-Info continues to monitor the process against Alexander formerly, a school teacher from the Oryol region, who is judged for poems in support of Ukraine. Fe. in a letter talks about what is happening in court. Hello! I decided to briefly tell you about my “criminal process” about poems in support of Ukraine, which has already finally turned into a real absurd theater. At the last court hearing, material evidence began to be presented in connection with my criminal case.