The Tula Regional Court rejected the appeal of a resident of Plavsk in the case of “desecration of objects of religious veneration” (part 2 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and increased his fine to 30,000 rubles. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The man was charged with publishing cartoons depicting Orthodox icons.

Employees of the Kirovsky police department in Crimea refused to initiate administrative proceedings in the wake of a solitary picket by public defender and coordinator of Crimean Solidarity Mustafa Seidaliev, write on the project website. On December 28, 2020, a Crimean Tatar activist went on a picket in support of the defendants in the Belogorsk case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, who were sentenced to 13 to 18 years in prison less than a month later.

In Birobidzhan, during the judicial debate, the prosecution requested 4 years of imprisonment for Jehovah's Witness Tatyana Zagulina under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on a website dedicated to the persecution of believers. The hearings are held in the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region.

The Perovsky District Court returned to the magistrate the case of Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) lawyer Lyubov Sobol about breaking into the apartment of an FSB officer. This was reported by Open Media with reference to lawyer Vladimir Voronin. The case was returned due to a technical error in the magistrate's order to schedule the hearing. “The attentive prosecutor noticed that instead of Part 2, the resolution indicated Part 1 of Article 139 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The Pskov City Court found 67-year-old pensioner Alexander Filatov guilty under the article on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). He was charged with publishing a post on VKontakte. This was reported by the human rights project “Network Freedoms” with reference to lawyer Tatyana Martynova. Filatov was sentenced to six months of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of one year.

Salekh Magamadov and another young man, who were taken to Chechnya from Nizhny Novgorod, are charged under the article on participation in an illegal armed group (part 2 of article 208 of the Criminal Code). They are charged with handing food to the militants: sausage, bread, orange juice, sugar, tea, chocolate, rice and buckwheat. This was reported by MBH Media with reference to the press secretary of the Russian LGBT Network Tim Bestsvet.

In Sevastopol, the prosecution asked Jehovah's Witness Viktor Stashevsky to receive 7 years in prison. He is accused under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the human rights group “Crimean Process”. The hearings are held in the Gagarinsky District Court of Sevastopol.

Six defendants in the case of protests in Ingushetia announced the end of the hunger strike. this with reference to lawyers Bilan Dzugaev, Magomed Kurkiev, Bashir Tochiev, Magomed Abubakarov, Andrey Plotnikov and Aralbek Dumanishev.

Photo from Facebook by Ivan Nogovitsyn On March 11, the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg extended the preventive measure to Ivan Nogovitsyn, accused in the case of calls and participation in the riots (part 2 and part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the protests for the preservation of the city square in 2019. This was reported by "Evening Vedomosti". The court decided to extend the term of the political prisoner in custody until June 14, 2021.

The Primorsky Regional Court recognized the February searches by six civilian activists in a criminal case on road ceiling (Article 267 of the Criminal Code) for the rally on January 23. This was reported by lawyer Dmitry Zubarev, who collaborates with the ATS-Info and representing the interests of activists. The searches took place on February 6 with Anton Rasin, Marina Zheleznyakova, Maxim Yarkukin, Giya Kakabadze, Roman Belomekhnova, Gennady Shulgi as in witnesses in a criminal case.

The examination, carried out by decision of the investigation, did not establish harm to the health of an employee of the National Guard, who is injured in the case against the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev. This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov. “The expert opinion says that no harm was caused to the health of the National Guard officer.

The Pskov City Court suspended the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include the journalist of Radio Liberty and MBKh Media Lyudmila Savitskaya in the register of foreign media agents. This was reported by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov. Savitskaya's interests were represented in court by lawyer Tatyana Martynova.

Veteran of the Crimean Tatar movement Akhmadjon Kadyrov was given a warning about the inadmissibility of violating anti-extremist legislation. This happened after he spoke in a public appeal "in support of the political prisoners of Crimea, writes . " Grati On March 22, employees of the prosecutor's office of the Nizhnegorsk district brought the warning to Kadyrov's home. The veteran of the Crimean Tatar movement refused to answer questions, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution.

The court in St. Petersburg appointed 2 years conditionally to Andrei Lomov, the defendant of the case of violence that is not life -threatening, in relation to the representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) for shares in support of Navalny. This was reported by the lawyer Svetlana Ratnikova, representing the interests of Lomov with the ATS-Info. The Mediazona Edition Bicycle Text Translation from the courtroom.

In Sevastopol, two Jehovah's Witnesses, Vladimir Sakada and Igor Shmidt, were released under house arrest. Grati writes about this with reference to the defense of the accused. The preventive measure was changed by the Sevastopol City Court. Sakada and Schmidt have been under arrest since October 2020 - they were sent to a pre-trial detention center after mass searches in the homes of believers.