The prosecutor, during the debate in the Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don, requested sentences of up to seven and a half years in prison for three Jehovah's Witnesses accused of creating an extremist organization. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia. Seven and a half years of imprisonment were requested for Jehovah's Witness Arsen Avanesov.

Police officers in St. Petersburg detained three collectors of signatures in support of the candidate for deputy of the Legislative Assembly Savva Fedoseev. The activists themselves reported this to OVD-Info. Ivan Pantileev, Yevgeny Vishnyakov and Denis Oykhberg were detained in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg when they were walking down the street with tablets.

Recognition of Project Media as an undesirable organization, pressure on the lawyer from OVD-Info and mass searches of Jehovah's Witnesses. The main thing about political pressure for July 15 is in the OVD-Info digest. The Prosecutor General's Office recognized Project Media as an undesirable organization and added journalists from Project, Open Media and Radio Liberty to the list of foreign agents. The Institute of Law and Public Policy was also recognized as a foreign agent.

Olga Shalina, head of the Moscow branch of The Other Russia, E. V. Limonova, told Mediazona that while she was serving an administrative arrest, her phone was turned on several times. At the end of June, Shalina, as well as the members of Pussy Riot who were detained at the same time, were arrested for 15 days in an administrative case of disobedience to police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). She served her arrest in special detention center No.

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared Project Media Inc., the American publisher of the investigative media outlet Project, an undesirable organization. It is reported by "Rain". The name of Proekt editor-in-chief Roman Badanin appeared on the list of media outlets as “foreign agents”. The names of four more Project journalists, Maria Zheleznova, Pyotr Manyakhin, Olga Churakova and Yulia Lukyanova, have been added to the register of foreign media agents.

The former head of Navalny’s headquarters in Yekaterinburg, Alexey Gresko, left Russia due to pressure from the authorities. He is currently in Germany. This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti. “In any case, I remain on the information agenda and do not intend to sever ties with Russia. Nobody forbids us to think, and, moreover, it is important to come to the elections in September and vote smartly,” the publication quotes Gresko.

In the village of Vakhtan, Nizhny Novgorod region, a former member of Navalny’s team, Evgeny Goligorov, was searched for a local “sanitary matter.” Goligorov himself reported this to OVD-Info. The search was conducted by employees of the Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod region. Goligorov's mobile phone was confiscated. At the moment, he and his girlfriend are being taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee in Nizhny Novgorod.

The Lomonosovsky District Court of Arkhangelsk satisfied the claim of Shies’s defender Vladimir Kogut in connection with the destruction of the eco-camp. This was reported by the publication Sever.Realii. On March 15, 2019, equipment constructing a waste landfill near the Shies station left the construction site and used an excavator to destroy the eco-activists’ trailer. That day, Kogut was on duty at the eco-camp and ran to the trailer to get his things.

In the Kurgan region on July 14, security forces conducted more than 30 searches of Jehovah's Witnesses. The press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported this. reports Believers were detained in Kurgan, Shadrinsk and other cities in the region. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee, the detainees held meetings of Jehovah's Witnesses, which involved more than 130 people.

The Arkhangelsk Regional Court considered the appeal in the case of the former head of Navalny’s local headquarters, Andrei Borovikov, who was found guilty under the article on distributing pornography (clause “b”, part 3 of article 242 of the Criminal Code). The prisoner's sentence was reduced to two years and three months in prison. Lawyer Alexey Kychin, who collaborates with Network Freedoms, talks about this.

Mathematician Azat Miftakhov, sentenced to six years in a general regime colony in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office, was transferred from the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center to pre-trial detention center-1 in Kirov. The prisoner’s wife, Elena Gorban, reported this to OVD-Info. On July 14, the detention center staff told Gorban that Miftakhov was still in Butyrka, but from the mathematician’s last letter it followed that he was supposed to be transferred that day.

Photo from the site "Carlegorship News". In the Sakhalin Region, the mayor of the city of Uglegorsk Sergey Doroshchuk fired the head of the newspaper "Uglegorsky News" Zinaida Makarov on the eve of the release of the material about the activities of the eastern mining company (VGK). This was reported in the telegram channel of the publication.

Chairman of the OPR Sergey Vladimirov, Mikhail Vedrov and Sergey Telnov / Photo: Sergey Telnov for OTD-Info The Tver Regional Court softened the sentence to the trucker Mikhail Vedarova, who opposed the Plato system. Two and a half years of conditional term under the article on the application of violence to a representative of the authorities (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) was reduced to two years. Three years of the trial period - also up to two years.

In Smolensk, criminal investigation officer Denis Kozlov conducted a survey of local oppositionists: editor of the independent portal KEYTOWN Alexei Volkov and civil activist and human rights defender Sergei Komandirov. This was reported on the KEYTOWN website. Komandirov confirmed this information in a conversation with OVD-Info. On July 12, Kozlov called Alexey Volkov and asked him to remember where the journalist was on July 1.

The Supreme Court of Ingushetia canceled a five thousand ruble fine imposed on Mufti Ise Khamkhoev under an article on illegal missionary activity . It is reported by HRC "Memorial". At the meeting on July 14, Khamkhoev's lawyer Magomed-Basir Ozdoev filed a motion to dismiss the case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations (in administrative cases it is three months).