The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk arrested anarchist Dmitry Tsibukovsky and his wife Anastasia Safonova for two months because of an action two years ago with the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.” This was reported by Mediazona with reference to Apology of Protest lawyer Andrei Lepekhin. The spouses are accused of hooliganism motivated by political hatred and enmity, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The Andrey Rylkov Foundation suspended the website on April 17, Anna Sarang, president of the FAR, told OVD-Info. At the moment, access to the site is limited, this decision was made due to the fact that government authorities see propaganda for the use of narcotic substances (Article 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in any publication where drugs are mentioned in one way or another.

In Makhachkala, police officers beat and detained public defender Dzhambulat Gasanov, who was escorting Larisa Bachiyeva, an activist of the National Union for the Revival of Russia, to the police department, who had previously had her car confiscated. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the lawyer himself. He said that his client was summoned to the department to inspect the confiscated car with her.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a criminal case was opened against the editor of the Reporter-NN publication and the author of the Sorokin Tail telegram channel, Alexander Pichugin, for spreading fakes about the coronavirus. about this The journalist told “Idel. Realii”, as well as on his page .

On April 16, the security forces came to the participant of the Crimean Solidarity movement, Alexander Gavrikov. This was reported on the movement's Facebook page. Employees of the criminal investigation department came to Gavrikov's house, conducted a survey and handed him a warning. The security officials were interested, in particular, whether the activist had relatives abroad, with whom he lives, what sources of income, whether there is a registered weapon at home.

At a meeting on April 16, the Krasnodar Regional Court decided to release from pre-trial detention center and transfer to house arrest Sochi resident Nikolai Kuzichkin, who is accused of organizing meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported on the official website of the religious organization in Russia. The court made this decision due to Kuzichkin’s serious health condition: the believer was diagnosed with severe hypertension and heart problems.

On April 16, the Supreme Court of Crimea rejected the appeal against the arrest of the defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. This was reported by the movement "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyer Emine Avamileva. On March 11, the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol extended the detention of Osman Arifmemetov, Rustem Sheikhaliev and Medzhit Abdurakhmanov in pre-trial detention until March 26 and 27.

The Second Western District Military Court at an off-site meeting in the Baltic Naval Court sentenced the defendants in the case of the Baltic Vanguard of Russian Resistance (BARS) to imprisonment for up to 8 years. This is reported by the publication "Mediazona" with reference to the lawyer Mikhail Uvarov from the human rights group "Agora". Alexander Orshulevich received 8 years in a penal colony, Alexander Mamaev and Igor Ivanov received 6 years each.

On April 17, police officers of Prokopyevsk drew up a protocol on the distribution of obviously inaccurate socially significant information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) to a local resident who left a comment on social networks about what she heard on the bus. This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kemerovo region.

A report was drawn up against Kolomna activist Vyacheslav Egorov, accused under the “Dada” article, under the article on the dissemination of obviously unreliable socially significant information under the guise of reliable messages (Part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a publication about the alleged progress of the coronavirus disease in the city. Egorov himself wrote about this on Facebook. Yegorov was given a summons for the survey on April 15.

Two defendants in the case of the "Ufa twenty" Hizb ut-Tahrir were placed in more stringent conditions of detention. This was reported in the public "Parental Solidarity". On April 14, Rinat Nurlygayanov and Fanis Akhmetshin were transferred from the pre-trial detention center in Sterlitamak, where they had spent almost a year and a half, through the detention center in Ufa, to the pre-trial detention center in the city of Birsk, Bashkiria.