The Leninsky District Court in Cheboksary today ruled in administrative cases against two activists in connection with a photograph showing people holding chicken eggs in their hands. This was reported to OVD-Info by lawyer Alexei Glukhov. The case under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 (organization of an uncoordinated public event) in relation to Vyacheslav Rybakov, a supporter of the politician Maltsev, was terminated due to the absence of an administrative offense.

Four single picketers detained near the State Duma building on April 19, calling for attention to the problems of foreign currency borrowers, left the Tverskoy police station. Earlier this morning, Elena Berezina and three others were detained - a young man who stood with a poster near the opposite edge of the State Duma building relative to the Berezina, and an elderly couple who were holding a picket near the doors of parliament.

On April 19, the Leninsky District Court of Novorossiysk refused to release political prisoner Daria Polyudova on parole early from a penal colony, serving a sentence for two posts on the social network VKontakte, which the court considered calls for extremism and separatism. The Public Verdict Foundation reported this on its Facebook page with reference to the foundation’s lawyer Irina Biryukova.

Detained at the Strategy-18 pickets in support of the Crimean Tatars, the leader of the St. Petersburg Solidarity movement, Vsevolod Nelayev, was released late in the evening of April 18 from police department No. 78, where he was threatened with a criminal case. This was reported by the movement "Solidarity of St. Petersburg" on its Facebook page.

On April 18, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined a participant in a rally in defense of trolleybuses agreed with the authorities, which took place on January 29, 2017, ten thousand rubles.

To fully protect detainees in courts, we need the help of savvy and professionally trained volunteers. Therefore, on April 26 at 19:00, the Memorial Human Rights Center, together with OVD-Info , the Sitting Russia movement and the Public Verdict Foundation, will hold a practical seminar for lawyers on protecting the right to freedom of assembly. In three weeks, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has already held about 500 administrative trials of those detained on March 26.

In Moscow, near the building of the State Duma, four single picketers were detained, urging deputies to pay attention to the problems of foreign currency borrowers. At the moment, the detainees are in the Tverskaya police station. Elena Berezina and three other people were detained - a young man who stood with a banner near the opposite edge of the State Duma building relative to the Berezina, and an elderly couple who were holding a picket near the doors of parliament.

The OVD-Info publishes the story of the Sochi human rights activist Semyon Simonov, who specializes in the help of migrants. Recently he was detained in Volgograd. Simonov was detained when he was going to meet the workers of one of the local companies on the issue of compliance with their labor rights. On April 16, in the city of Volgograd at about 10:30, three police officers in uniform approached me on the street.

On March 26, hundreds of participants in the protest against corruption were detained throughout Russia. In Moscow, the police detained more than a thousand people. Most of the detainees are accused of administrative offenses under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, they are threatened with significant cash fines. Several dozen were sentenced to arrests for a period of 2 to 15 days.