The First Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction left the sentence of the former head of the Serpukhov District of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, unchanged: 15 years in prison. RIA Novosti reported this. reports "The Cassation Court left the verdict unchanged, the hearing took less than an hour. We will continue to appeal the verdict, we will file complaints to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the ECHR," the politician's wife, Yulia Shestun, told journalists.

The Moscow City Court approved the decision on the fines that were imposed on the residents of the capital Alexander Tveryakhin, Georgy Ivanov and Natalya Koval. This is reported by defender Denis Eliseev and lawyer Oksana Borodina, cooperating with OVD-Info and representing the picketers in court. Tveryakhin, Ivanov, and Koval were fined 10,000 rubles for pickets.

The Proletarsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced the former editor-in-chief of the local publication “Golos” Igor Khoroshilov to 300 hours of community service under the article on drug possession (Article 228 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii. According to investigators, prohibited substances were found in his apartment during a search in April 2021 in the case of anonymous telegram channels.

In Moscow, the Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction commuted the sentence of former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky, convicted because of two tweets under the article on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), changing the place of serving the sentence from a general regime colony to a settlement colony. This was reported by the head of the human rights group “Agora” Pavel Chikov with reference to lawyer Svetlana Baiturina.

The Second Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow upheld the sentence of Pavel Grin-Romanov, a defendant in the "palace case": three years in prison. This was reported by Artem Nemov, a lawyer from OVD-Info who represented the interests of the convicted man.

Arsen Abkhairov, a defendant in the Red Guard case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison, was transferred to the Prison-2 Federal State Institution in Yeniseisk (Krasnoyarsk Territory). It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". Abhairov was taken out of a pre-trial detention center in the Rostov region in early January.

The Staropromyslovsky District Court of Grozny arrested for two months the mother of Chechen activists Ibragim and Abubakar Yangulbaev, Zarema Musaeva, who was kidnapped from Nizhny Novgorod. This was reported by the Baza telegram channel. The woman will remain in pre-trial detention until April 1. She is charged with an article on the use of violence against a government official (Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

March 15, 2022 Information about the overturning of the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Andrei Gubin turned out to be erroneous. Earlier, the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website reported that the court overturned Gubin's sentence and sent the case for a new trial, but this information was not confirmed. On February 1, the Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan Andrei Gubin, the website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports .

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan satisfied the complaint of the prosecutor's office against the decision to compensate Rostislav Malakhov for unlawful prosecution. Malakhov himself announced this to OVD-Info. In November 2021, the Novo-Savinovsky District Court of Kazan awarded the man 254,000 rubles for lost wages due to his detention in a pre-trial detention center in a criminal case, which was subsequently terminated. The court refused to compensate for the costs of a lawyer.

The Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow has banned the lawyers of the journalist Ivan Safronov, who is accused under an article on treason, from making extracts and notes when reading the case file. It is reported by "Kommersant". The court recognized as lawful the actions of the FSB investigators, who had previously banned lawyers from such work with 23 volumes of the case and attached materials.

Anatoly Gorbunov with his wife, 2021 / photo from the website "Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia" The court in Krasnoyarsk appointed Jehovah's witness Anatoly Gorbunov 6 years in prison in a general regime colony. This was reported on the site covering the persecution of believers.

The Central District Court of Voronezh softened the preventive measure for civil activist Grigory Severin, who is accused of calling for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). His relatives reported this to OVD-Info. Severin was released from house arrest under a ban on certain activities. A criminal case was opened against him due to a publication on December 19, 2019. That day, Yevgeny Manyurov opened fire near the FSB building on Lubyanka, Meduza reported .

The Sharya District Court (Kostroma Region) denied parole to Ruslan Kostylenkov, a defendant in the “New Greatness” case. This was reported by his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. In August 2020, the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced a young man to seven years in a general regime colony (with the term credited: a day in a pre-trial detention center for one and a half days in a colony), five years of restriction of freedom and a two-year ban on posting materials on the Internet.

In the Krasnodar region on January 28, a series of searches took place in the homes of Jehovah's Witnesses. Criminal cases were opened against three believers - 50-year-old Anatoly Yevtushenko, 61-year-old Alexei Lelikov and 64-year-old Pavel Sidorenko. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”.

State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov threatened to kill members of the Yangulbaev family, who are being persecuted, presumably because of criticism of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. He stated this during a live broadcast on Instagram. “Know that day and night, without sparing our lives, property and offspring, we will pursue you until we cut off your heads and kill you,” the opposition telegram channel 1ADAT translated the deputy’s words.