During the debate in the Dzhankoy District Court, the prosecutor requested 7 years of imprisonment in a maximum security colony for local resident Sergei Filatov, who organized meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by the online publication “Grati” with reference to Filatov himself. Filatov, who is under recognizance not to leave the place, is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Tver District Court of Moscow fined 15 thousand rubles each Tatyana Kolobakina and George Maltz - participants in the action with the banner’s posting in support of the political prisoners on the fence of the State Duma. It is reported by "MBH Media" from the court.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Russia to pay a total of 37,016 euros to employees of the human rights organization Frodo, who were fined for holding a meeting on tolerance issues. This was reported by the Human Rights Center "Memorial". The ECtHR found that the Russian authorities violated the applicants' right guaranteed by Article 11 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (freedom of assembly).

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory sentenced Ibragim Dugiyev, a participant in protests against changing the borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia, to a year and two months in a colony-settlement. This was reported to OVD-Info in the press service of "Memorial". The man was found guilty of using violence that is not dangerous to health to a police officer (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code).

In the Penza pre-trial detention center, the defendant in the “Network” case, Arman Sagynbaev, who was sentenced to six years in prison, was diagnosed with tuberculosis. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to Sagynbaev’s mother Elena Strigina. “Initially, they took sputum from my son. And last week we took him for fluorography and confirmed closed-type tuberculosis of the right lung in the area of ​​the shoulder blades.

The Savelovsky District Court of Moscow fined designer Konstantin Konovalov for 10 thousand rubles, who, during the detention before the action on July 27, broke his leg. This was reported on the Twitter of Judicial Translations "MBH Media". Konovalov was found guilty under the article on participation in an inconsistent mass event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In Belarus, on February 21, Nikolai Makhalichev, a resident of the city of Urai in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, was detained and three days later placed in a pre-trial detention center, the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia website reports .

The Irkutsk administration refused to approve a rally in support of those involved in the Network case, reports Siberia. MBH Media" with reference to the representative of the local Union of Marxists Andrei Kalinkin. According to Kalinkin, the authorities refused to coordinate the rally announced for March 1 at all five sites, citing the celebration of Maslenitsa and preparations for the World Hockey Championship. Activists were asked to postpone the rally to March 10.

Three defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been under arrest in a pre-trial detention center for 11 months, but they are not being investigated, Krym . Realii” with reference to the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev. to a pre-trial detention center in March 2019 Ruslan Suleymanov, Erfan Osmanov and Seyran Murtaza were sent after mass searches.

The administration of the pre-trial detention center in Makhachkala refuses to allow the mother of journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev to visit her son, "referring to the comments of his relatives in social networks." This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot".

On February 25, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow dismissed the administrative case against the International Society "Memorial" under the article on foreign agents due to the absence of corpus delicti. Yulia Orlova, press secretary of Memorial HRC, reports this. The protocol against Memorial for allegedly missing the marking of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was drawn up in connection with a blog on Ekho Moskvy.

Irek Mukhametov and Anas Gimatzedinov, who were sentenced to 18 years in prison in the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, were no longer groundlessly placed in a punishment cell (SHIZO) after appeals from their relatives, reports . the Parental Solidarity telegram channel Mukhametov and Gimatzedinov have been in IK-26 in the Samara Region since November 2019.

Mathematician and anarchist Azat Miftakhov, accused of hooliganism at the office of United Russia in the Moscow district of Khovrino, will meet the beginning of the trial in the Butyrka pre-trial detention center, now he is getting acquainted with the case. According to the investigation, Miftakhov's “criminal activity” included, among other things, participation in actions in support of political prisoners. Two more cases have been singled out for separate proceedings.