A participant in a rally against pension reform in Moscow on September 9, 2018, Vasily Kostylev, was discharged from a psychiatric hospital after 16 months of compulsory treatment. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov. On September 9, 2018, an all-Russian action was held against raising the retirement age. In total, according to OVD-Info, more than 1,018 people were detained, including Kostylev.

Several defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir are planned to be transferred to SIZO-1 of the Rostov region (Rostov-on-Don) from other pretrial detention centers in the region where they are located. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity".

The Military Court of Appeal, located in Vlasikha, Moscow Region, rejected the appeal to extend the arrest of the defendants in the third Bakhchisaray case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The measure of restraint for Seytumer Seytumerov, Osman Seytumerov and Rustem Seytmemetov, who are now being held in the Rostov pre-trial detention center, was left the same - arrest until April 22, 2021.

On December 31, Jehovah's Witness Felix Makhammadiev was released from a colony in Orenburg. But since the believer was deprived of Russian citizenship, he was placed in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens and Stateless Persons (TSVSIG) in the village of Alabaital, Orenburg Region. After that, he will be sent to the country where he was born - Uzbekistan. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia.

The court extended for six months the arrest of the first five defendants in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". This group of defendants includes Remzi Bekirov, Riza Izetov, Raim Aivazov, Shaban Umerov, Farhod Bazarov. The court granted the prosecutor's request to extend the arrest of the accused until June 16, 2021. The defendants are being escorted to SIZO-1 of the Rostov region in Rostov-on-Don.

During the debate in the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region, the prosecutor requested 4 years in prison and 1 year of restriction of freedom for Jehovah's Witness Igor Tsarev. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Tsarev’s lawyer also spoke at the debate; he noted that the accusation is presumptive in nature, built on “the substitution of legally significant concepts and facts,” and the evidence was replaced with “necessary” statements.

Jehovah's Witness from Chekhov, Yuri Krutyakov, is being transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 3 in the Moscow region. The Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website reported this on December 26. It is clarified that he is in a shared cell and his quarantine has been lifted. Before that, he spent some time in the Moscow “Butyrka” (pre-trial detention center-2 in Moscow). Yuri Krutyakov was placed in a pre-trial detention center on March 5, 2020.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov fined local eco-activist Valery Semenishchev 10,000 rubles for a series of solo pickets against air pollution. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7". The court agreed with the protocol, in which the police wrote that Semenishchev organized a mass picket near the regional prosecutor's office, since all the participants in the action had "identical means of agitation." A series of single pickets took place on 17 November.

On December 29, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic overturned the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Grozny to impose house arrest on 71-year-old lawyer Sergei Marakov. The case was sent for a new trial, and the lawyer was remanded in custody until January 17, 2021. Marakov is accused of possession of drugs on a large scale without the purpose of sale (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Memorial Human Rights Center.

/*-->*/ The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Irina Terekhina, a participant in a solitary picket in support of protesters in Belarus, for 10,000 rubles. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Selezneva, who defended Terekhina in court. On September 15, several people came out to the Presidential Administration with single pickets. The police then detained seven people, including Terekhina.

The Kirov City Court of the Leningrad Region issued several decisions in the cases of participants in the rally and the laying of flowers at the memorial to the fallen on the Nevsky Piglet. The court stopped several cases, returned several to the police, imposed a fine on one case. This was reported to OVD-Info by St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov, who represented the interests of the activists in court. In the case of Svetlana Nikonova, five court hearings were held.

In Moscow, near the FSB building on Lubyanka, a lone picketer Andrei Us was detained, who was standing with a poster "Take the hostage from the captivity of Chekist-terrorists back home." He himself reported this to the OVD-Info hotline. 5 minutes after the start of the picket, police officers approached the activist, checked his documents and asked how long Us planned to stand in the picket. Us replied that "without a certain period", after which the man was detained.

Sergey Kulakov’s car / screenshot from the video from his page on VKontakte Unknown night set fire to the car of the editor -in -chief of the Dzerzhinskoye Estate, Sergei Kulakov. He wrote about this on his page on VKontakte. According to Kulakov, he had already looked at the records from surveillance cameras, which shows that someone is setting fire to his car.