The Meshchansky District Court in Moscow fined seven participants in the action against the autonomous Internet 10 thousand rubles under the article on violating the rules of the action (Part 5, Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), which took place on March 10 on Academician Sakharov Avenue. Activists of the “Libertarian Party” Yegor Karasev, Litvin and Yegor Agafonov were detained before the start of the action.

At the exit from the village of Nizhnyaya Yeluzan, Penza Region, the traffic police stopped a car driven by Albert Gerasimov, an activist of the Generation of New Times and a member of the United Communist Party. This was reported to OVD-Info by the coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Padalkin. Inspection officers twisted a light box from the roof of the car (Gerasimov works as a taxi driver).

On the Moscow Ring Road between Riga and Rublevsky highways, traffic police officers stopped about 10 cars of members of the Association of Carriers of Russia. This was announced to OVD-Info by the head of the Moscow branch of OPR Sergey Rudametkin. In honor of the second anniversary of the all-Russian strike of truckers against the Platon system, drivers staged a rally. At around 3:30 p.m., traffic police officers stopped several cars. Rudametkin says there were two people in each car.

Employees of the criminal investigation department came to the office of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party. about this with reference to Sergei Mitrokhin, who is a member of the federal political committee of the party. writes MBKh Media According to law enforcement officers, the service number "02" received a call with a message that "Yabloko" was distributing extremist literature. Which one, they did not specify.

In Yekaterinburg, the police drew up administrative protocols against four members of the Association of Carriers of Russia (OPR) because of a meeting in honor of the second anniversary of the all-Russian strike of truckers against the Platon system. This was reported to the OVD-Info hotline by Ivan Suslov, coordinator of the local branch of the OPR. The activists were accused of violating the procedure for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

The Moscow District Military Court at an off-site hearing in the Pskov Regional Court fined Arkady Markov, a deputy from the settlement of Ostrov, accused of justifying terrorism via the Internet (Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), of 700,000 rubles. about this Writes "Moskovsky Komsomolets in Pskov". According to investigators, in November 2016, Markov published on his page on VKontakte an excerpt from the NTV series Game.

In Pskov, the investigative committee dropped a criminal case of obstruction of the elections, initiated due to the distribution of leaflets from the local branch of Yabloko calling for the spoiling of ballots. It is reported by MBH Media. At a court session, the head of the Pskov "Yabloko" Lev Shlosberg appealed against the legality of initiating a case under Part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code.

The Investigative Committee of Ingushetia opened a criminal case on incitement to riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) due to comments on Instagram. This is stated on the website of the department. It is clarified that the investigation did not find out who exactly wrote the comments. According to the Baza telegram channel, the messages that led to the initiation of the case were published in the “inginform public – Observer of Ingushetia”.

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow upheld the fine of the municipal deputy of the Akademichesky district, Nadezhda Zhuykova, on charges of beating the engineer of technical supervision Tereshchenko. Zhuykova told OVD-Info about this. According to Zhuykova, about three months ago Tereshchenko, a member of the overhaul commission, refused to draw up an act on the violations found.

In Crimea, members of Crimean Solidarity are being searched at least at 25 addresses. OVD-Info was informed about this by Lutfiye Zudieva, an activist of the movement. Searches are being conducted in 22 Crimean Tatar houses in Simferopol, two houses in Belogorsk and at least two houses in the village of Oktyabrskoye. Presumably, the searches are related to the cases of alleged members of Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.

My grandmother will turn 80 this spring; four years ago she became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Now we live in different cities, but I try to visit her more often and call her regularly. My grandmother’s life has not been easy since childhood: the hungry post-war period in a mountain village in the Caucasus, the early death of her father. At the age of 16, she left her native village for the city along with her baby sister , who soon died in her arms from hunger and disease.

The Investigative Committee confirmed the use of physical violence against Jehovah's Witnesses detained after searches in Surgut, but denies torture with electric shock. This is stated in the message of the department’s management for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. During the inspection, the department found that “due to active resistance,” law enforcement officers used “combat techniques” on the detainees, which contributed to minor bruises and abrasions on the legs.

On March 26, searches took place in the Kirov and Chelyabinsk regions of alleged members of the Jehovah's Witnesses community. This is reported on the organization's website. In Kirov, searches are known at at least ten addresses. Several people were detained. A criminal case is being investigated against 58-year-old Alexander Shamov, 27-year-old Andrey Shchepin and 70-year-old Evgeny Udintsev.

In 2017, all Jehovah's witnesses were banned in Russia, recognizing extremist. Since then, about a hundred people have been subjected to criminal prosecution. The followers of this doctrine are forced to gather secretly, hide the Bible and keep bags with things in case of arrest. OVD-Info publishes an anonymous story by a relative of the witness Jehovah. My grandmother will turn 80 this spring, four years ago she became a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses community.