Jehovah's Witnesses Alexei Berchuk and Dmitry Golik, sentenced to imprisonment, were transferred from the pre-trial detention center in Ussuriysk. This was reported on a website with information about the persecution of representatives of the faith in Russia. Now the believers are in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Blagoveshchensk.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg fined Konstantin Alekseev for commenting on a post about a terrorist attack in New Zealand. This was reported by the press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. Alekseev was found guilty under the article on the public justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) and a fine of 300 thousand rubles was imposed. Alekseev fully admitted his guilt.

In Tyumen, police detained picketer Andrei Yurov, who came out in support of those convicted in the Network case. He himself told OVD-Info about this. The detainee was taken to police department No. 4, where he wrote an explanation and was photographed. After this, the picketer was released. On February 10, 2020, the defendants in the Penza “Network” case were sentenced .

New “foreign agents”, a request for a real sentence under the “Dada” article and the detention of an incel by Center “E”. We tell you the main news for October 8. The prosecution requested three years in prison for Kolomna eco-activist Vyacheslav Egorov. He is being persecuted under the “Dada” article. The Ministry of Justice included nine more people and three companies in the register of “foreign agents”.

The police drew up protocols because of the posts on VKontakte for three National Bolsheviks who are serving an administrative arrest. This was reported to OVD-Info by their colleague Anastasia Marintseva.

The Ministry of Justice included nine journalists and three companies in the register of media outlets performing the functions of “foreign agents.” This is reported on the department's website.

In St. Petersburg near the Kazan Cathedral, Dmitry Puzenkov and Dmitry Peshkov were detained with posters, congratulating United Russia on the robbery of the country. This was reported by the OTD-INFO by the detainees. Both activists had posters with the inscription “Congratulations to United Russia on the beginning of the 3rd dozen robbery of the country !!!”. Now Puzenkov and Peshkova are being taken to the police department No. 28.

The prosecutor asks to impose three years in prison for Kolomna activist Vyacheslav Egorov, accused under the “Dada” article of repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Mikhail Biryukov. The meeting took place in the Kolomna City Court. Together with Biryukov, Egorov’s interests are represented by lawyer from OVD-Info Maria Eismont. Egorov spent about six months under house arrest.

The ex-head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, sentenced to 15 years in a colony, was transferred to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Yaroslavl. The prisoner spoke about this in a letter to his family, which is referred to by the prisoner's support group in the telegram channel.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol fined the Crimean Tatars Raim Seitkhalilov , Mir Ibragim Ibragimov and Seitnibi Ramazanov because of a spontaneous gathering in support of the arrested Crimean Tatars. This is reported by "Crimean Solidarity" and "Crimea.Realities". All three were found guilty of violating the high alert regime (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Seythalilov was fined 3,000, Ibragimov and Ramazanov - 5,000.

The judge of the world judicial section No. 3 of the Yoshkar-Olinsky judicial district fined the chief editor of the local news portal Yocity12 by Sergey Mameev for four thousand rubles. The reason for the initiation was the matter that in one of the news the site did not indicate the status of “media - foreign agent” in a signature to a photograph taken by the Medusa photographer. The court of Yocity12 reported the court’s decision.

On October 6, in the Kurgan region, employees of the Investigative Committee came to search Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. Investigative actions were carried out at at least three addresses. Among other things, security forces searched the home of a believer who was burying his mother that day. Immediately after the funeral, the man was forced to go for interrogation.

The Kiev District Court of Simferopol fined Crimean Tatar Abdumalin Susanov seven thousand rubles. He was found guilty of violating the high alert regime (Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a spontaneous gathering in support of the arrested Crimean Tatars, which took place in early September near the local FSB building. This was reported by the Crimean Solidarity portal.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined a local resident Mark Prozorov by 20 thousand rubles under the article on participation in an inconsistent campaign (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), which he was charged with due to a picket in support of Ros Pusten journalists Yana Kalevsky and Alexander Dorogov. This was announced by the OTD-Info by the interests of Prozorov by a lawyer from the OTS-Info Ilya Utkin.

On October 7, the Military Court of Appeal in Vlasikha, near Moscow, upheld the sentence of the leader of the Left Resistance, Daria Polyudova, who was convicted under articles on justifying terrorism and extremism on the Internet for six years in a colony. This is stated in the Facebook group “Freedom to Darya Polyudova”. As activist Valery Nadezhdin writes with reference to lawyer Leonid Solovyov, the term of imprisonment was left unchanged by the Polyudovoy court.