On December 27, the Kemerovo Regional Court changed the measure of restraint for Jehovah's Witnesses from detention to house arrest. This was reported by Siberia. Realities." Vadim Levchuk and Sergei Britvin spent 521 days in pre-trial detention, the publication notes. The court of second instance decided to transfer the believers under house arrest while appealing the next extension of their period of detention.

The person involved in the "Moscow case" Andrey Barshay was sent back to the pre-trial detention center after a psychiatric examination. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the lawyer Barshay Mansur Gilmanov. Psychiatric examination was carried out in the center. Serbsky, the lawyer specified that the defense had not yet become acquainted with its results.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow refused to unblock the bank account of Krasnodar human rights activist Alexei Mandrigeli. This was announced by Mandrigeli's lawyer from OVD-Info, Mikhail Ignatiev. The lawyer explained that the judicial act was not yet ready, and it is not known what motivated the decision to arrest Mandrigeli's accounts. The court of first instance had previously arrested the accounts of Alexei Mandrigeli on charges of financing the Anti-Corruption Fund of Alexei Navalny.

Musa Malsagov, a defendant in the Ingush Bolotnaya case, was charged with a criminal case under an article on the activities of an extremist community. This was reported on Facebook by his lawyer Magomed Bekov. The lawyer writes that an investigator contacted him and informed him that a criminal case had been opened under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Zheleznovodsk city court sentenced Mustafa Vyshegurov, a protester in Ingushetia, to a year and five months in a penal colony. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". Vyshegurov was found guilty under the article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). Given the period of detention of the convict in the pre-trial detention center, he will be able to be released in January 2020.

In Arkhangelsk, the police dropped an administrative case against journalist Yaroslav Varenik, who posted a video of a black metal band. this .

In Yekaterinburg, the Investigative Committee interrogated Aidar Islamov, a participant in the protests against the construction of a temple on the site of a square near the Drama Theater. It is reported by MBH Media. As Islamov's lawyer Nikita Tomilov told the publication, his client was interrogated in the case of damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code). The lawyer added that Islamov received the status of a witness, and therefore he could not give a detailed comment.

The person involved in the "Ingush case" Musa Malsagov was transferred from the Nalchik pre-trial detention center to the Vladikavkaz pre-trial detention center without notifying the lawyer. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot". “Why this was done is not clear. All this is due to the lack of organization of the investigation. There was no proper notification of lawyers.

The investigation changed the preventive measure for Vyacheslav Egorov, a Kolomna activist accused in a criminal case of repeated violation of the law on rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), from a ban on certain actions to a written undertaking not to leave. Egorov himself announced this on Facebook. “The investigation has withdrawn from my case. At least it seems so from my viewing angle. There have been no actions since February, or we are not aware of them.