UN flag / photo: Sanjitbakshi, CC by 2.0 The UN specialist on the issues of rights to peaceful assemblies and associations of Cleman Nyaletsussi Vul called on the state not to use the pandemic as an excuse for an unreasonable restriction of human rights, including the right to freedom of assembly. The UN reports this on its website.

Barnaul activist Nikolai Umerenkov was attacked at his entrance when he was returning home. The incident took place on the evening of April 13th. This is reported by Siberia. Realii” with reference to the activist. Nikolay connects the incident with his political activities. He is not going to contact the police, as he believes that police structures may be behind the attack. Prior to that, he received threatening messages on social networks. “There were two attackers.

We managed to distribute the soup to 20–30 people, which took about half an hour. The police came up from behind when we wanted to start pouring tea. They began to demand to disperse, but we wanted to finish distributing tea. This would have taken another ten minutes, nothing terrible would have happened during this time, the police were told about it. We also planned to distribute underwear, but we managed to do it. It was no longer possible to distribute tea. The protesters had to leave.

Judge Ksenia Panova of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined a participant in the rally on Konstantin Kotov’s birthday 10 thousand rubles under the article on violating the procedure for holding a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Yulia Tregubova. Sofya Valuyskaya was detained on February 22 at the monument to the heroes of Plevna in Moscow.

A new criminal case has been opened against journalist Abdulmumin Hajiyev. This is reported by MBH-media with reference to his lawyer. Hajiyev is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The decision of the Moscow City Court ordering the release of Nikita Chirtsov, a defendant in the “Moscow case,” will reach the pre-trial detention center in the Kursk region only on April 18. Lawyer Alexander Borkov, who represents the interests of Nikita Chirtsov on behalf of OVD-Info, was informed about this by post.

The Chebarkul city court of the Chelyabinsk region fined a resident of Chebarkul 30,000 rubles for a post on VKontakte with words about the introduction of additional troops into major cities of the country. This was reported by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Chelyabinsk region. In one of the Chebarkul groups on VKontakte, a local resident posted a publication that allegedly sent additional troops to major cities of the country to suppress “hunger riots”.

An employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ruslan Shaveddinov, was transferred to a military unit deep into the island of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. about this on Twitter. wrote FBK press secretary Kira Yarmysh Yarmysh said that she was contacted by a military man who returned from a business trip to the military unit, which is located near a place called Cherakino, 25 km from the village of Severny, in a zone without communication. “Cherakino is just a helipad.

Employees of Navalny's Lipetsk headquarters were detained in Yelets, where they arrived at the workers of the blood transfusion station that is closing today. This was reported on the telegram channel of Navalny's headquarters in Lipetsk. Employees of Navalny's headquarters were detained at the entrance to the city.

They came to the home of the administrator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page, Vladimir Vorontsov, with a search; he is on his social networks. reported “There is a search in my apartment, they are breaking the door,” Vorontsov wrote on the pages of the “Police Ombudsman” and asked to “inform journalists and lawyers” about this.

“Food instead of bombs” is an international initiative, whose participants give food to homeless in different cities for many years. On April 12, in Moscow, two activists were detained at the next event at the Kursk station for “violation of self -isolation”. One of the participants in the action anonymously told the OVD-Info about her detention. We managed to give out the soup of 20-30 people, it took about half an hour. The police came up behind when we wanted to start pouring tea.