The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg decided to take into custody Valery Dubenyuk, accused of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during the dispersal of the anti-war rally on March 6. This is the telegram channel of the United Press Service of St. Petersburg. reports Dubenyuk is a suspect in the case of an attack on a policeman on Pirogov Street.

A new protocol under the same article is being drawn up against Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, who is serving an arrest under the article of disobedience to the police (Article 1, 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Her girlfriend and colleague Lyusya Stein reported this on Twitter. Alyokhina faces up to 15 more days of administrative arrest. Earlier it became known that in a special detention center, a police officer threatened a girl with violence because she refused to move to another cell.

The military appeal court in Vlasikha upheld the sentences of the defendants in the Belogorsk Hizb ut-Tahrir case - Aider Dzhepparov, Riza and Enver Omerov. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this. reports the Verdict to the Belogorsk group on January 12, 2021.

Director of the Nochlezhka charity organization Grigory Sverdlin left Russia. He talks about this in his telegram channel. Sverdlin explained the decision to leave by saying that he was afraid to expose his colleagues with his loud statements. “Well, it's time. In recent days, they have been warning me from different sides that they will soon come for me - I speak too loudly. <…> I still won’t shut up and will continue to rage—you can’t tolerate the unbearable.

The Second Cassation Court of Moscow upheld the sentence of blogger and leader of the movement “For New Socialism” Nikolai Platoshkin. Radio Liberty is about this. writes In May last year, a blogger was fined 700 thousand rubles and 5 years of suspended imprisonment. He was found guilty of inciting mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and disseminating knowingly false information (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code).

At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, VKontakte blocked the public pages of the publications Meduza, Present Time, Radio Liberty and its projects in Russia. Previously, the administration of the social network “Medusa” notified about the blocking of the public, and “Currently” messages about the blocking of communities in “VKontakte”, “Odnoklassniki” and “Yandex.Zen”.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court extended for 3 months the preventive measure in the form of detention for five members of the second Simferopol group of Hizb ut-Tahrir. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this. reports According to the court decision, Dzhemil Gafarov, Servet Gaziev, Seyran Murtaza, Alim Karimov, Erfan Osmanov will remain in custody until June 20, 2022.

On March 9, the court of the Jewish Autonomous Region overturned the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Svetlana Monis and returned the case for a new trial. This is a portal covering the persecution of believers. .

Syktyvkar lawyer Ernest Mezak left Russia because of the law on “fake news” about the actions of the Russian army. About this SOTA on the human rights activist’s Telegram channel. “I really left Russia. My motives are as follows. I want to call Putin’s treacherous attack on Ukraine a vile war, and Putin-type judges who unreasonably persecute participants in anti-war protests as weak-willed zombies.

A resident of Surgut was fined 40 thousand rubles under the article on discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). About this writes the online edition NEFT with reference to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Olga Abmaykina.

On March 9, the Penza Regional Court approved suspended sentences for Jehovah's Witnesses Pyotr and Maya Krupnov. This was reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. On December 30, 2021, the Nikolsky District Court of the Penza Region sentenced the couple to three years of suspended imprisonment and eight months of restricted freedom.

The acting prosecutor of Sterlitamak initiated a case against a local resident under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of posts with links to the Proekt publication. Information about this appeared in the telegram channel of the human rights project "Network Freedoms".

The State Duma in the second reading approved the amendment on the creation in Russia of a unified register of individuals - “foreign agents”, Interfax. The list will include, in particular, employees of NGOs and media with the status of “foreign agent”. transmits The amendments involve the creation of a unified register of information about individuals recognized as “foreign agents” or associated with them.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five Crimean Tatar activists accused of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, Grati publication. Remzi Bekirov, Riza Izetov, Shaban Umerov, Raim Aivazov and Farkhod Bazarov were found guilty of attempting to seize power (Article 278 of the Criminal Code using Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).

Geography teacher at Moscow school No. 498 Ramiz Manafly is threatened with dismissal because of his publication on Instagram, in which he stated that he did not want to “be a mirror of state propaganda.” The teacher told OVD-Info about this. March 8 Manafly on Instagram: “Recently at school they told me: “You cannot have any position other than an official, state one.” Well, I have my own opinion! And not only me, many teachers have their own opinion. And guess what?