In St. Petersburg, Ilya Pershin, a participant in a mass protest in support of Alexei Navalny on January 31, was sent to a pre-trial detention center until April 2. He is accused in the case of the use of violence that is harmless to health against the National Guard (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This was announced by lawyer Anton Yupanov, who cooperates with OVD-Info. The decision was made by the Oktyabrsky District Court.

Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Ivan Zhdanov said that their arrested colleague, cameraman Pavel Zelensky, is under pressure in the pre-trial detention center - he refused a lawyer and fully admitted his guilt. this Zhdanov said on the air of the Navalny LIVE program. “We really fear for the possibility of his legal protection. <...> He refused a lawyer in writing and fully admitted his guilt, ”the director of the FBK said.

Alexei Navalny was placed on preventive registration as prone to escape. This was reported on behalf of the oppositionist on his Instagram. “The guards come in and take me to a room on another floor. There are three there: a captain, a lieutenant colonel and a colonel. - We have a meeting of the preventive commission. It has been decided to put you on preventive registration as prone to escape. Well, of course, I start laughing.

On February 3, the Sovetsky District Court of Orel extended the arrest of three Jehovah's Witnesses - Vladimir Melnik, Vladimir Piskarev and Artur Putintsev - until March 8, 2021. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. 54-year-old Vladimir Melnik, along with Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Piskarev and Artur Putintsev, was detained in December 2020 after mass searches of community members in Oryol.

In Moscow, the police came to the house of the artist Anzhelika Aganina, who carried out an exorcism near the Center for the temporary detention of foreign citizens in Sakharovo. about this on Twitter . wrote Journalist Denis Styazhkin According to him, Aganina refused to open the door to the police. Now employees are waiting for the artist at her home. During the action, as Styazhkin clarifies, Aganina read Psalm 90, which the Orthodox use to exorcise evil spirits.

The head of the Alliance of Doctors trade union, Anastasia Vasilyeva, a defendant in the “sanitary case”, was changed the place for serving house arrest. about this on Facebook . wrote Lawyer Dmitry Dzhulai, who represents the interests of Vasilyeva, Initially, the head of the union was sent to serve house arrest to her ex-husband, and not to the apartment where her children live. Because of this, the lawyer twice asked the investigator to change the place of residence of his client.

In Rostov-on-Don, the former member of Open Russia, Anastasia Shevchenko, was sentenced to 4 years conditionally. It is reported by "Human Rights Cards Postcards." The Oktyabrsky District Court found Shevchenko guilty of participating in the activities of an “unwanted organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced 4 years conditionally and 4 years of the trial period.

On February 6, the Lesozavodsky City Court of the Primorsky Territory changed the measure of restraint for Jehovah's Witness Evgeny Grinenko from house arrest to a ban on certain actions. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The message does not say what specific actions are prohibited. Grinenko is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The FSB carried out a large-scale operation to detain Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters in 10 regions. It is reported by TASS. We are talking about Moscow, St. Petersburg, Primorsky and Krasnodar Territories, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, Oryol, Kaluga and Ivanovo regions, as well as Crimea. The FSB believes that the detainees spread "militant Islamist terrorist ideology, combined with intolerance towards other religions." Criminal cases have already been opened against seven detainees.

Activist Anna Shekalova and five other people who were in the camp opposing the construction of a landfill were detained on Shies. Shekalova managed to report this herself in the activist community “News from Shies”. According to the community, until today there were five people in the activist camp - four men and one woman. On the night of February 18, contact with them was lost, and other activists reported seeing police cars heading towards the camp.

On February 18, the Birobidzhansky District Court sentenced Jehovah's Witness Konstantin Guzev to 2.5 years of suspended imprisonment on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the press service of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported to OVD-Info.

The Moscow City Court has left Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina and Oleg Navalny, Alexei Navalny's brother, under house arrest. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to the press service of the court. At the same time, the court changed the place of serving Oleg Navalny's house arrest from the address of registration to the address of actual residence. The defense side asked the judge about this.

The Kemerovo Regional Court invalidated one of the clauses of the local law on rallies, Apology of Protest reports , citing plaintiff Dmitry Miropoltsev. The court canceled the clause prohibiting the holding of actions in places where events are held with the participation of children, as well as in the territories adjacent to them. The judge explained his decision by saying that the ban was of a “general nature”: it did not concern specific places, but abstract territories.

In St. Petersburg, the Second Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction refused to consider a claim to lift the ban on holding protests in the city. about this on his Telegram channel . spoke Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov, one of the claimants, According to Idrisov, about a hundred plaintiffs asked the court to lift the ban on holding mass and non-mass events, including single-person pickets.

In Chelyabinsk, the deputy coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters, Alexander Kopyev, and an employee of the headquarters, Anna Kiseleva, became suspects in a criminal case for blocking roads (Part 1 of Article 267 of the Criminal Code). Kiseleva herself reported this to OVD-Info. On February 17 at about 12 o'clock they came to search them. After the search, the activists were taken away for interrogation and released only around 10 p.m.