In Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism because of a painted poster about the May 9 march, on the department’s website. it says Initially, the poster featured a photo of a child standing at a stand with a photograph of a veteran.

On Mendeleev Boulevard in the city of Murino (Leningrad region), the police detained an activist of the "Strategy-18" Vladimir Shipitsyn. He stood in a single picket in support of the Crimean Tatars. Together with Shipitsyn, the security forces detained his associates Mikhail Gerasimov, Asan Mumdzhi, Olga Smirnova and Tatyana Sichkareva. At the same time, they did not take part in the action, but only filmed it. The activists themselves told OVD-Info about the detention.

In Rostov-on-Don, the state prosecutor demanded that five defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case be sentenced to 15 years in a maximum security colony. The public association “Crimean Solidarity” talks about this. reports The case is being considered in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. At the meeting, the prosecutor also asked to add one and a half years of restriction of freedom to the punishment after release.

Yandex has removed from its search results links to sites of media outlets blocked by Roskomnadzor. Now users from Russia will not be able to find these resources. To the attention of Meduza what happened. In particular, links to the websites of “Mediazona”, “Current Time”, “Kholod”, “Pskov Province” and other publications disappeared from the search results. However, links to their social networks remain.

A court in Taganrog fined Meduza journalist Vladimir Sevrinovsky 2,000 rubles for refusing to unlock his phone at the request of the police. about this He wrote on his Facebook. The journalist was detained on April 14 near the Veselo-Voznesenka checkpoint in the Rostov region on the border with Ukraine, when he was helping refugees from Mariupol. Sevrinovsky was left for the night at the police department because of the refusal to “open the phone” to the district police officer.

In St. Petersburg, the police detained the city defender Oleg Mukhin, who opposes the demolition of the building of Ekimova's commercial baths. This OVD-Info was told by his girlfriend. Mukhin was taken to police station No. 18 and kept there for more than three hours, although no administrative protocol was drawn up against him. OVD-Info failed to obtain precise information about what Mukhin was doing before his arrest.

The defendant in the Artpodgotovka case, Sergei Ryzhov, was sent along a stage to the place where he was serving his sentence. Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina reports this on her Facebook. The message does not say where exactly Ryzhov will serve his sentence.

The head of Agora, Pavel Chikov , published in his telegram channel a list of new criminal cases under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). In total, Chikov listed 11 new criminal cases, including three that OVD-Info had not previously reported on.

Two Jehovah's Witnesses were found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization and were sentenced to suspended sentences, Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website. reports on April 14, 2022, the Seversky City Court of the Tomsk Region found Sergei Belousov guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to three years probation.

On April 14, the Astrakhan Regional Court approved the decision of the Trusovsky District Court in the case of Jehovah's Witness Anna Safronova. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this.

In Crimea, at a meeting in the Armenian City Court, the prosecution requested three years in a colony-settlement for the former chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Mustafa Dzhemilev, under the article on illegal border crossing (part 3 of article 322 of the Criminal Code) in connection with the events of 2014. This is reported by the publication "Krym.Realii".

On April 17, Roskomnadzor, by decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked 24 resources, including the website of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, Gazeta.ua and Hromadske Radio, as well as an article about the war with Ukraine on the Human Rights Watch website. This is what the Roskomsvoboda project is about. reports Since the blocking is carried out via HTTPS, the Human Rights Watch website for many Russian operators was completely unavailable, Roskomsvoboda noted.