The Investigative Committee of Crimea has charged the former chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev. This was reported on the website of the department. Dzhemilev is charged with illegal border crossing (Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code), negligent storage of firearms (Article 224 of the Criminal Code) and illegal acquisition and storage of ammunition (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code).

The Investigative Committee of Bashkortostan opened a criminal case under the article on the spread of fake news about the coronavirus (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in a press release from the department. The reason for initiating the case was publications alleging that the leadership of the Republican Clinical Hospital left the building of a quarantined institution through a window due to the detection of a coronavirus infection in a number of patients.

The Southern District Military Court has extended the arrest of eight Crimean Tatars in the second Bakhchisaray Hizb ut-Tahrir case until August 13. This is reported by "Crimea. Realities". The defense asked for an indefinite break in the hearings due to the coronavirus epidemic, the defendants noted that there were no means of protection against the virus in the pre-trial detention center. The prosecutor's office petitioned for an extension of the arrest for three months.

The Roskomnadzor Directorate for the Central Federal District summoned the editor-in-chief of Mediazona, Sergei Smirnov, to draw up a protocol. The publication itself reports this. The reason for drawing up a protocol under the article on abuse of mass media (Part 2 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was news from the publication, which did not indicate that Artpodgotovka is an extremist organization banned in Russia.

The Stavropol Regional Court upheld the appeals filed by the public prosecutor against Ingush protest activists Khasan Katsiev and Rashid Aushev. The prosecutor's office did not agree with the fact that the court of first instance excluded the motives of political hostility from the activists' cases. This was reported by the telegram channel "FortangaORG". The court also ruled to immediately release Katsiev due to the offset of the period of detention in the pre-trial detention center.

The defendant in the “Moscow case” Sergei Surovtsev, sentenced to two and a half years in prison, disappeared from pre-trial detention center No. 5 of Moscow “Vodnik”. His mother reported this to OVD-Info. The last time the mother communicated with the convict was on April 10. She is not told where her son is. Surovtsev is scheduled to appeal the verdict on April 20. 14th of April. According to unconfirmed information, Sergei Surovtsev was sent to pre-trial detention center No.

The person involved in the "Moscow case" Yegor Lesnykh, who was sentenced to three years in a penal colony, was transferred from the Moscow pre-trial detention center. about this on her Facebook page . wrote His fiancée Daria Blinova At the moment, it is not known where he is now and to which colony he is being transferred. He was in custody in SIZO-5 "Vodnik".

The Investigative Committee of Russia reported on the initiation of three new criminal cases for spreading fake news about the coronavirus (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). Cases were initiated in the Tver and Novgorod regions, as well as in the Republic of Tatarstan. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to the agency's website.

The Moscow City Court decided to reduce the sentence of the defendant in the “Moscow case” Nikita Chirtsov to 11 months in prison. The guards must free him. This was reported by lawyer Alexander Borkov, who represented Chirtsov on behalf of the court. from under OVD-Info “There is no appeal ruling yet, but the judge announced that she excluded the use of violence as a qualifying feature and on this basis commuted the sentence to 11 months,” comments Borkov.

In Ulyanovsk, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, the termination of the administrative case was canceled against the local activist Alexei Nurullin, who was detained on a single picket against Putin’s policy. This was announced by the OVD-Info by Nurullin himself.