Crimean Prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya on April 13 suspended the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people. “Today I made a decision to suspend the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People public association in order to prevent violations of federal law,” Poklonskaya told TASS. Poklonskaya substantiates her decision with the norms of the law “On countering extremist activity”.

The lawyer of the new accused in the Bolotnaya case, Maxim Panfilov, Sergei Panchenko, told OVD-Info that at the moment his client is not receiving the medications necessary for his illness in the temporary detention center. At the moment, he “takes mild drug substitutes that do not have a positive effect on his condition.” According to the defense lawyer, the symptoms of Tourette syndrome , which Panfilov suffers from, have intensified, and therefore it is quite difficult for his client.

On April 13, the Central District Court of Barnaul ruled to block the website of the Children 404 project , which provides support to LGBT teenagers. This is reported by the publication "Rosbalt" with reference to the representative of the "Russian LGBT Network" Svetlana Zakharova. The court agreed with the position of the prosecutor's office, which found "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations" in the publications on the site.

The Department of the Investigative Committee of Moscow sent to the court for consideration on the merits the materials of the criminal case against nationalist Dmitry Demushkin on inciting hatred, RAPSI reports citing the department. Demushkin was charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). “I was left with one episode under Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia.

On April 13, Oleksandr Kostenko, a Crimean activist and member of the Euromaidan movement in Kyiv, was denied parole. This was announced by his lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov. “Today, in a court session held via video conference, a representative of the colony said that Kostenko was not employed simply because there were no jobs,” Sotnikov wrote.

Nizhny Novgorod anarchist Ilya Romanov is accused by the administration of IK-22 of allegedly violating the rules of the colony, he is also threatened with tougher conditions of detention. This is reported by Kasparov. Ru with reference to an employee of the "Committee for Civil Rights" Larisa Romanova. “As soon as Romanov left quarantine for the zone, a report was drawn up against him “for smoking in the detachment’s premises,” despite the fact that he had not smoked for many years.

The judge of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, Elena Bulgakova, found activist Viktor Kapitonov, who was detained on March 25 with the flag of Ukraine in the Alexander Garden, guilty of violating the procedure for holding a public event and fined him 10,000 rubles. This was reported by the correspondent of the edition "Kasparov.ru". The police accused Kapitonov of picketing "in a group of two people" near the presidential residence and holding two banners.

In Kirov on April 13, three activists of the "People's Self-Defense" were detained, who were holding a rally against the illegal dismissal of an employee of the "Skatert-Samobranka" canteen. As reported on the page of the movement in the social network "Vkontakte", the detainees were taken to the Pervomaisky police department. What exactly was the action, is not reported. The names of the detainees have not been released.

Maxim Panfilov, arrested in the Bolotnaya case, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. This was announced on April 13 by lawyer Sergei Panchenko after visiting Panfilov in the temporary detention center. There was no information available about the reasons for ordering the examination at the time of writing. It was previously reported that Panfilov was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome .

On April 12, the Voroshilovsky District Court of Volgograd dismissed one of the administrative cases brought against Alexei Ulyanov, one of the organizers of a rally against bad roads that took place in the city on March 19. this from the words of the activist himself.

Three participants in the protest against the construction of the Pioneer Park residential complex in Ulyanovsk were charged with administrative cases for organizing a simultaneous mass stay, which caused a violation of public order, and for blocking transport communications (under Articles 20.2.2 and 20.18 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is stated in a message published on April 13 on the website of the regional police department.

Chuvash RPR-PARNAS activist Dmitry Semenov, who in September 2015 was found guilty of public calls for extremist activities due to the reposting of an interview that included a caricature of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. Information about this was disseminated by lawyer Damir Gainutdinov, who represents Semenov’s interests in the ECHR.

On March 7, I, Alexey Anatolyevich Vorozhtsov, at 14.00 in the city of Ivanovo, were detained along with my comrade Yuri Sergeevich Nilov by people in police uniforms. The reason for our arrest was two bottles of beer standing openly on the ground.

The OVD-Info publishes the story of the Ivanovo social activist Alexei Vorozhtsov, who in early March 2016 was detained on suspicion of drinking alcohol in the wrong place, and then arrested under the article on disobedience to the legal requirements of the police for 13 days. Despite the fact that the detention itself was not related to politics, Vorozhtsov had suspicions that the arrest was connected with his social activity.

On April 8, during single pickets at the dining room “Samobravka tablecloth” in Kirov, anarchists were detained from the Narodnaya Self-Defense movement. The reason was the complaint of the hosts of the institution.