Lawyer Alexander Nemov and human rights activists of the Committee Against Torture were not allowed to see Zarema Musaeva, who was kidnapped from Nizhny Novgorod, in a special detention center in Grozny, the organization reports . At 5 p.m., Musaeva was to be interrogated as a witness in the fraud case.

Representatives of the prosecutor's office on January 21, at the debate of the parties in cases of an extremist organization, requested punishment for Jehovah's Witnesses from Sakhalin and Chuvashia . This was reported on a website covering the persecution of believers. At a hearing in the Kalininsky District Court of Cheboksary, the prosecution asked Vladimir Chesnokova and Valeria Yakovleva for six years, and Vladimir Dutkin - 6.5 years in a general regime colony.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 15,000 rubles on Avgust Vilakia due to a solitary picket. This was reported by a lawyer from OVD-Info, Vasily Kushnir, who represented the interests of the activist. Vilakia was found guilty under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Ramil Razyapov, the head of the Action trade union cell that organized the “Italian strike” in the Ishimbay Central District Hospital, was forced to resign from his post as acting head of the ambulance department. This is reported by the publication "Idel.Realii". According to the activist, the administration of the medical institution put pressure on him - formally, Razyapov wrote a letter of resignation based on a memo, the contents of which he does not know.

The Moscow City Court upheld the ban on certain actions imposed on the State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Valery Rashkin in the case of illegal hunting (part 2 of article 258 of the Criminal Code). reports SOTA . In December 2021, Rashkin was forbidden to leave the house from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. and communicate with other defendants in his criminal case and was charged. According to investigators, he killed a moose in the Saratov region at the end of October 2021.

In Makhachkala, at a picket in support of the journalist of the newspaper “Chernovik” Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, the founder of the publication Magdi Kamalov and lawyer Marat Ismailov were detained. This was reported in the Chernovika telegram channel. The picket was carried out by Kamalov, and twenty minutes later the action was interrupted by a policeman. He stated that there was a reference to Kamalov.

The younger sister of the Chechen opposition blogger Khasan Khalitov, who left Russia due to political pressure, is now being held hostage by security forces subordinate to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by the human rights association VAYFOND and dissident Tumso Abdurakhmanov . Khalitov himself emigrated to Turkey. After that, in December 2021, Chechen security forces kidnapped his relatives who remained in Russia.

The Leninsky District Court of Novosibirsk dismissed the administrative case against local activist Yana Drobnokhod. This was reported by lawyer Vasily Dubkov, who defended the girl in court from OVD-Info. Drobnokhod was charged with violating the rules of organizing a rally (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences) - a report was drawn up against the activist on January 20.

On January 20, the Tyumen administration refused to approve a picket for three people against the restrictive measures introduced due to COVID-19. Three days later, the activists went to court demanding that the authorities' refusal be declared illegal. this Alexander Zhukov from Tyumen reports on VKontakte. The lawsuit was filed with the Central District Court of Tyumen. The activists insist that by refusing to hold the picket, the authorities violated their constitutional rights.

During the debate in the Trusovsky District Court of Astrakhan on January 21, the prosecutor requested a sentence of six years in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witness Anna Safronova. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” writes about this. Safronova left her job in November 2020 to care for her elderly mother, however, the prosecutor is demanding a realistic sentence be set.

Police officers in St. Petersburg detained the National Bolsheviks Vyacheslav Chernyshev and Ilya Prokhorov. The activists themselves reported this to OVD-Info. The detainees unfurled a banner against Russophobia in Kazakhstan - during the action they were not far from the Consulate General of this country. Presumably, Chernyshev and Prokhorov will be taken to the 78th police department. What article they are charged with is unknown.

The investigator closed the case of Barnaul activist Viktor Rau, who was charged with the “Dada” article about repeated violations of rally legislation (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). This is what the Apology is about.

Police in Moscow detained the National Bolshevik Alexander Rybkin. He himself informed OVD-Info about this. The activist was taken to the Tverskoy police station. In the department, Ilya Utkin, a lawyer from OVD-Info, will help him.

Zarema Musaeva, the mother of activist Ibragim and Committee Against Torture lawyer Abubakar Yangulbaev, as well as the wife of former federal judge Saydi Yangulbaev, may be under 15-day administrative arrest in Grozny. The Minister of Foreign Relations, Information and Press of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, announced this on January 23 on the evening broadcast of Dozhd.