On July 22, Jehovah's Witnesses from Tula Yulia Popkova and Angela Putivskaya were ordered not to leave. This was reported on a website dedicated to the persecution of representatives of this religion in Russia. On April 13, searches were carried out at believers' homes. Putivskaya is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). Popkova is charged with the same article, but in a different case.

Sentenced to three and a half years in prison in the St. Petersburg “Network” case, Igor Shishkin was released. Mediazona reports this. In January 2019, Shishkin was found guilty of participating in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code). He testified against the other defendants in the Network case. The anti-fascist was detained on January 25, 2018, while he was walking his dog.

The FSB tried to prevent the publication of a new article by journalist Ivan Safronov, accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by Open Media with reference to lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov. The journalist worked on the investigation while in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. Because of this, he and his lawyers faced obstacles and pressure from the security forces.

Replenishment of the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents”, refusal to approve the action of the National Bolsheviks and extension of the preventive measure for the person involved in the “sanitary case”. We talk about the main news for July 23. Pussy Riot member and defendant in the “sanitary case” Maria Alekhina has had her house arrest extended until January.

Jehovah's Witness from Abakan Roman Baranovsky, sentenced to six years in prison, was transferred to IK-3 in Chita, where he will serve his sentence. This was reported on the website of the religious organization.

The prosecutor requested four years in prison for Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan, Anastasia Guzeva. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. The state prosecutor also demanded that Guzeva’s freedom be restricted for two years and that she be prohibited from changing her place of residence or leaving the city. The woman is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

to the list of media outlets acting as foreign agents The Ministry of Justice added The Insider and five journalists . This was reported on the official website of the department. Foreign agents recognized: Mikhail Rubin (publication "Project"); Ilya Rozhdestvensky (Open Media publication); Sofia Groysman (Rain TV channel); Yulia Apukhtin (Proekt edition); Aleksey Posternak (Radio Liberty publication).

The authorities of Perm refused to allow the local nazbols to agree on a rally for fair elections. This is reported by the publication "Idel.Realii". The notice of the rally on July 31 was submitted by the Moscow branch of the unregistered party The Other Russia E. V. Limonova. The Perm City Hall referred to the coronavirus pandemic and the need to coordinate the rally with the administration of the head of the region.

The Kirov Regional Court satisfied the administrative claim of PARNAS party members Svetlana Marina and Vadim Ananyin in the wake of the refusal of the Kirov authorities to agree on a picket in defense of electoral rights, which was originally planned by civil activists to be held on July 19, and then postponed to July 23. Ananyin himself told about this to OVD-Info. The court ruling is at the disposal of the project.

In Moscow, three deceived equity holders, who were detained in July near the State Duma building, were issued protocols on violation of the procedure for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Among those for whom protocols were drawn up were Yuri Shchepinov and Grigory Kostyunin. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info Sergey Telnov, who defends equity holders.

During the debate in the Yakutsk city court, the prosecutor demanded that the shaman Alexander Gabyshev be given compulsory medical measures in the framework of the case of the use of violence against a security official (part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by MBKh Media with reference to the coordinator of the Human Rights Postcard Alexei Pryanishnikov.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow extended until January 8 the house arrest of Pussy Riot art group member Maria Alekhina, a defendant in the “sanitary case.” This was reported by MBKh Media. The consideration of Alekhina's case on the merits has been postponed to July 29.

Two defendants in the first Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir group, Rustem Ismailov and Ayder Saledinov, who were sentenced to 13.5 and 11.5 years in a strict regime colony, were placed in a ShIZO in colony IK-2 in Bashkortostan because they tried to read at night prayer. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity portal, citing Saledinov's wife.