The Kirovsky District Court of Khabarovsk changed the preventive measure against Jehovah's Witness Yegor Baranov to prohibit certain actions, according to a website covering the persecution of believers. The FSB investigator asked the court to extend the believer’s detention, but the judge did not agree with the prosecution’s arguments and prescribed a more lenient measure.

Khabarovsk activist and participant in protests in support of ex-governor Sergei Furgal, Evgeniy Mazikin, was attacked by unknown persons who introduced themselves as police officers. He spoke about this in a video on his Instagram. According to him, near a store in the Yuzhny microdistrict of Khabarovsk, a car drove up to him, from which two people rushed towards him. The activist tried to run away from them, but his pursuers caught up with him and beat him. He was also shot several times.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow chose in absentia a preventive measure in the form of detention of Tyumen blogger Alexey Kungurov on charges of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). TASS reported this with reference to the press service of the court. reports The court decided to send Kungurov to a pre-trial detention center for two months from the moment of extradition to Russia.

The police drew up a protocol for Alexei Gresko, an activist of the Popular Initiative - a movement leading the campaign for the return of direct elections of the mayor of Yekaterinburg. This was reported on the movement page on VKontakte. The protocol on a violation of the procedure for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) received the activist by mail.

Screenshot from the YouTube channel "Communist Party Altai Territory" The Railway District Court of Barnaul fined the communist Viktor Yurkin due to the use of pyrotechnics during the filming of the video against amendments to the Constitution in the local Hyde Park-on Freedom Square. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Altai branch of the Communist Party.

Crimean Tatars were escorted from SIZO No. 1 of Crimea, accused under terrorist articles because of their participation in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. They are transferred to a pre-trial detention center in the Rostov region. This was reported on the Facebook of "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev.

In the city of Karabulak, a search is being carried out at the home of the ex-Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia and one of the leaders of the protest against the exchange of lands with Chechnya, Akhmed Pogorov. reports . Fortanga According to the source of the publication, searches are taking place in the family home of Pogorov, as well as in the home of his relatives living nearby. It is reported that security forces on armored vehicles cordoned off the whole block.

On November 19, in the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, three Jehovah's Witnesses accused of extremist charges were extended their arrest for six months. The Caucasian Knot writes about this. The first hearing on the merits took place in court. The defense petitioned to transfer believers Alexander Parkov, Vilen and Arsen Avanesov to house arrest, including due to the coronavirus epidemic. Vilen Avanesov is 68 years old, the defense fears for his health.

In Moscow, the grandmother of the coordinator of the Avtozak Live project Maxim Kondratiev was visited by unknown persons, presumably from the police. This was reported to OVD-Info by Kondratiev himself. The visitors refused to introduce themselves. Initially, the elderly woman was asked if some Smirnovs and other people live in the apartment. “We started asking about children and grandchildren: where they live, where they work, what they do. Grandma refused to answer.

Eco-activists Konstantin Fokin and Lyudmila Kuzmina were detained in Moscow for chaining themselves to a concrete slab in protest against the cutting down of trees. The detainees themselves reported this to OVD-Info. The environmental activists were taken to the Losinoostrovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, it is not yet known what kind of article they are charged with.

The Magadan City Court dismissed an administrative case on the spread of fakes about the coronavirus against Tatiana Bryce, editor-in-chief of Magadan Speaks. This is reported by MBKh Media, according to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov. The case under the article on the dissemination of knowingly false information (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was dismissed due to the lack of corpus delicti.

The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok sentenced Gia Kakabadze, a participant in protests in support of Khabarovsk, to seven days of administrative arrest due to Instagram posts in 2019. This was reported by the Vladivostok Active telegram channel. The man was found guilty under the article on public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).

The Central District Court of Khabarovsk arrested Evgeny Kozlov, a participant in protests in support of Sergei Furgal, for two days. Anna Romashchenko, coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, reports this. The court found Kozlov guilty under the article of repeated violation of the rules of participation in the action (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). He was defended by OVD-Info lawyer Andrey Demidov.