On July 12, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa arrested Grigory Gorovoy, a civil activist and defender of the shikhan of Kushtau, for five days. This is reported by Idel.Realii. Gorovoy was found guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a gathering of citizens on the outskirts of the city of Baimak, which took place in April.

During a meeting in the Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don, the person involved in the second Simferopol “Hizb ut-Tahrir case”, journalist Remzi Bekirov, became ill. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". Bekirov's temperature rose to 38.7 degrees. He complained about feeling unwell even before the meeting, then the SIZO staff took his temperature - the thermometer showed 37.1. Despite this, he was taken to court.

The promotion of deceived equity holders at the State Duma. Photo: Group "Knowlines of the LCD Tsaritsyno" in VKontakte Police officers detained three deceived equity holders who went to the State Duma building and fastened themselves to the fence in protest. Among them, Grigory Kostyunin and Yuri Shchepinov. This was announced by the OTD-Info by lawyer Dmitry Grustatov.

The Volga city court sentenced Alexander Mordovsky, who denied the collapse of the USSR, to six years in prison. This is reported by MBH Media with reference to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Volgograd Region and Kommersant . Mordovsky was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, police detained activist Vladislav Kazakov. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The activist came out to Red Square wearing a T-shirt with the inscription “Freedom for Navalny.” He was taken to the police department in the Kitai-Gorod district. It is still unknown what crime Kazakov is charged with. OVD-Info lawyer Ilya Utkin went to help the detainee.

The prosecutor's office approved an indictment against Yuri Zhdanov, the father of the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov. This was reported by MBKh Media with reference to lawyer Vladimir Voronin. Yuri Zhdanov is accused of official forgery (Part 2 of Article 292 of the Criminal Code) and fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) due to his work in the housing commission in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

Supporters of the organization “Citizens of the USSR” were sentenced to real terms, and a former FBK operator, convicted of tweets about the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina, was transferred to a colony in the Tula region. The main news for July 13 is in the OVD-Info digest. Supporters of the organization “Citizens of the USSR” were sentenced in the Tula region.

The Industrial District Court of Perm for the second time canceled the fine of Mikhail Efremov, a participant in the action of solidarity with the residents of the Khabarovsk Territory. The Public Verdict Foundation reports this. The court returned the case to the Commission on Juvenile Affairs (KDN). The first two times, she made a decision with violations: Efremov was not notified of the meeting, the case was considered without his legal representative.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court changed the sentence of the leader of the Stop GOK movement Vasily Moskovets and activist Gamil Asatullin. Lawyer Pavel Chikov reports this.

On July 9, Jehovah's Witness from the Khabarovsk Territory Alexei Ukhov was released from pre-trial detention center No. 2 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur on his own recognizance. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of religious representatives in Russia. Ukhov spent eight and a half months in a pre-trial detention center; for part of the period he was prohibited from receiving or sending letters, but later the court considered this decision illegal.

On the territory of Crimea and Russia, access to the website of the Crimean Human Rights Group was lost, the organization reported about this on July 12. The courts blocked the resource due to materials about the illegality of conscription into the army. According to Roskomsvoboda, since 2018, Russian courts, at the request of the military prosecutor's office, have blocked 28 materials of the organization. Due to the HTTPS protocol, the entire site was blocked.

In the Birobidzhan District Court, during the debate, the prosecutor requested four years in prison and a two-year restriction of freedom for Jehovah's Witness Natalya Kriger. This was reported on the portal covering the persecution of believers in Russia. The woman is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). A criminal case was opened against her in February 2020.

The Central District Court of Togliatti fined Project April 300 thousand rubles under the law on “foreign agents” (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by Mediazona with reference to the project director Tatyana Kochetkova. Earlier, a fine of 100 thousand rubles was imposed on Kochetkova herself - the court considered that three publications of the organization on VKontakte lacked the marking “foreign agent”.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria upheld the decision of the court that sentenced the head of the Circassian public organization "Khabze" Martin Kochesokov to three years probation under the article on possession of drugs on a large scale (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky, convicted in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), is in quarantine in IK-2, Tula region. On May 5 he was transferred from pre-trial detention center-3. This was reported to OVD-Info by Yulia Ladunova, who corresponds with Zelensky. “Now I am in quarantine at PKU IK-2, perhaps next week I will be transferred to the camp itself,” Zelensky said in his last letter.