The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to reimburse activist Shahnaz Shitik twenty thousand rubles for illegal detention and two days in a cell, reports . Apology of Protest The court partially satisfied the claims of the plaintiff.

Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the morning of April 22 in Simferopol searched the house of Ruslan Ramazanov, reports Krym.Realii . His computer processor was confiscated. As human rights activist Abdureshit Dzhepparov told the publication, the security forces indicated as the reason for the search that a message about a terrorist attack was published from a computer in 2020, which did not occur.

On April 22, the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia upheld the house arrest of Jehovah's Witness Albert Batchaev, who is accused of “extremist” charges, the Caucasian Knot reports, citing lawyer Igor Litvinov. “The defense provided grounds that, according to the law, the total period of detention and house arrest of an accused of a serious crime cannot exceed 12 months.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended until July 28 a preventive measure in the form of detention for Chernovik journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. This is reported by "Caucasian Knot". The court began to consider the case of Gadzhiev on the merits, the prosecution announces the evidence referred to in the indictment.

On April 22, the Nalchik city court extended the arrest of Akhmed Pogorov, former head of the Interior Ministry of Ingushetia and member of the World Congress of the Ingush People, who is accused in the case of protests against the change of the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. It is reported by "Fortanga" with reference to the lawyer Magomed Gagiev. The preventive measure was extended until June 26. The protest leader was detained on February 26, 2021.

The defendant in the “palace case,” Valery Evsin, was transported from the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” in an unknown direction. The telegram channel “Prisoners 212” writes about this. According to the project, relatives do not know where Evsin was taken. OVD-Info lawyer Maxim Pashkov, who represents the interests of the defendant in the case, also does not know the whereabouts of his client.

On April 22, the Sychevsky District Court of the Smolensk Region found two Jehovah's Witnesses, Maria Troshina and Natalya Sorokina, guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization. They were sentenced to six years probation with a probationary period of three years. The European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses reported this to OVD-Info.

Alexei Navalny stopped his hunger strike, which he began on March 31 while in correctional colony No. 2 in Pokrov. The politician wrote about this on Instagram. The report says that Navalny was examined twice by a council of civilian doctors: “The last time was right before the rally.

on its official website The Ministry of Justice announced , were included in the list of media "acting as a foreign agent" that the Meduza publication , as well as the First Anti-Corruption Media . At the moment, the register of media-foreign agents contains 19 positions, five of them are individuals.

In Krasnoyarsk, a criminal case was opened against a participant in the action on April 21 for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code), and he was detained. About this on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The man's name is not reported . According to the police, he brought pyrotechnics to the event and lit a fire during a protest in support of Alexei Navalny.

The Federal Penitentiary Service filed a second report against Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina for violating the rules of house arrest because she went to the post office to send a letter to Navalny. This was reported by Open Media from the words of Alyokhina’s lawyer Daniil Berman. “According to the doctors’ conclusions, Alekhina is now recommended for short walks. We asked the court to resolve them, but the court referred this issue to the investigation.