In St. Petersburg, judge of the Petrograd District Court Elena Medvedeva fined Vasily Kunin, Sergei Kuzin and Larisa Kucherova, participants in the Sixth Memorial Day in memory of Boris Nemtsov. About this in my “Apology of Protest.” Telegram channel reports The court imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles on all three participants. They were found guilty under the article on violating the rules of participation in a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

In Vologda, police officers detained Yevgeny Domozhirov, a journalist from the Position publication and an activist from the Vmeste movement, because of his refusal to hand over his passport to law enforcement officers. About this on his page in "VKontakte" reports the movement "Together". Domozhirov, at the request of the policeman, showed his passport in expanded form, but the law enforcement officer then demanded that the document be handed over.

The Leninsky District Court of Smolensk fined local resident Anton Novikov 30,000 rubles for a comment on VKontakte under Putin's image with the inscription "Putin is a man, glory to Russia." to Mediazona This was reported by the human rights group Agora. The court found a resident of Smolensk guilty under the article on disrespect for authorities on the Internet (part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Novikov’s defender Sergei Komandirov reports .

In Kerch on May 26, four searches were carried out in the homes of followers of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by the publication “Crimea. Realities,” without disclosing the name of his trusted source. As a result of the searches, at least one believer, Artem Shabliy, was detained. A criminal case was opened against him, presumably for organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Judge Stanislav Minin of the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced Viktor Nemytov, a participant in the picket in support of the creator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page, Vladimir Vorontsov, to 15 days of administrative arrest. About this in my “Apology of Protest.” Telegram channel writes Nemytov was arrested under the article on repeated violation of the rules of participation in a public event (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The court in Blagoveshchensk imposed fines on the participants of the festive motor rally on May 9. It is reported by the publication "Siberia. Realities". A week ago, the organizer of the rally, Dmitry Kravtsov, was fined 20,000 rubles under the article on organizing a public event. Today, the court issued two more decisions on fines in the amount of 10 thousand rubles under the article on violation of the self-isolation regime.

Judge of the Vasileostrovskiy District Court Daria Ten assigned 50 hours of compulsory work to Dmitry Negodin, who was detained on May 25 during a rally in support of the defendants in the Network case. about this Negodin wrote on his page on VKontakte. The court found him guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for participation in a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

In the city of Vyazemsky, Khabarovsk Territory, followers of Jehovah's Witnesses were searched. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports at least 7 searches of believers. It is known that armed officers of the FSB conducted searches of 68-year-old Yong Sen Lee and his wife, as well as a 19-year-old believer and his mother, after which the men were taken away in an unknown direction. Yong Sen Lee was sent home after some time.

The Tverskoy District Court fined activist Tatyana Zavadskaya 15 thousand rubles in connection with the rally on Konstantin Kotov’s birthday on February 22. This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info, Yulia Tregubova. The court found Zavadskaya guilty of an offense under the article on violating the rules of participation in a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

On April 30, in Dagestan, four followers of Jehovah's Witnesses were charged in the final version. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Maria Karpova is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization and involving other people in its activities (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code and Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to place in custody the creator of the “Police Ombudsman” public page, Vladimir Vorontsov. His lawyer Sergei Badamshin reported this on his Telegram channel. In early May, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested Vorontsov for two months, until July 6, 2020.

Kemerovo blogger Mikhail Alferov was subject to two administrative reports of disrespect for authorities (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) in connection with videos on Youtube. Alferov himself told OVD-Info about this.

The Khabarovsk Regional Court upheld the conviction of Jehovah's Witnesses follower Evgeniy Aksenov. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. On February 18, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced Aksenov to two years of suspended imprisonment and six months of restricted freedom. At the end of the probationary period, he will not be allowed to leave his place of registration at night for six months.

On May 26, the residents of one of the houses of the district printed a collection of signatures for the resettlement of their house near the entrance. A police detachment arrived at the place. After that, the district police officer came to Tatyana Berezhnaya, the eldest house and demanded to proceed with him to give explanations. The careless refused, after which he forced her to sign the obligation to turn out the next day. The resident herself reported this in the ATS-Info.

The audience of the “Police Ombudsman” is more than half a million subscribers on social networks: on VK , telegram and Vorontsov’s personal account on Instagram . The “Police Ombudsman” wrote both about the problems of police officers: overwork and various absurdities, and about systemic problems in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, talked about a wave of suicides among security forces, and published anonymous complaints from police officers about injustice.