The Moscow City Court has approved the decision to extend the house arrest of environmental activist Olga Kuzmina. This was reported by lawyer Katerina Tertukhina, who cooperates with OVD-Info and represents the interests of the detainee. Decision to extend the preventive measure Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow, April 6. accepted Kuzmina is charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to the action she held on August 9, 2021.

Ernes Ametov, a defendant in the case of the second Bakhchisaray group of Hizb ut-Tahrir, who was previously found innocent, was again sent to a pre-trial detention center. “Crimean Solidarity” is about this. reports This decision was made by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don.

The Kaluga District Court imposed a fine of 25 thousand rubles on Natalya Maslennikova, against whom a case was opened due to photographs with bare buttocks in front of the Church of the Transfiguration. Information and Analytical Center "Sova" about this. reports The girl was found guilty of insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code).

The Dzhankoy World Court fined the Crimean Tatar Imam Emir Medzhitov under an article on violation of the rules of missionary activity (part 4 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), reports . Crimean Solidarity The case was opened on March 23 due to the fact that Medzhitov held religious events, not being a member of a religious organization and not having documents for missionary activities.

In Ivanovo, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a 44-year-old local resident. “Mediazona” is about this. reports A man is accused under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (clause “c” of part 2 and part 4 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of an entry in one of the messengers.

Search engines Yandex, Mail.ru and Rambler removed links to the Novaya Gazeta website from search results. Europe". The publication itself is about this. Yandex reports when trying to find materials from Novaya Gazeta. Europe" issues a warning that links are missing due to Russian legal requirements. The company is legally prohibited from displaying sites included in the Roskomnadzor register of prohibited information.

The Lipetsk Regional Court approved the refusal to commute the sentence of the defendant in the “palace case” Sergei Pavlyutkin. This was reported by lawyer Maxim Zolotarev, cooperating with OVD-Info, who represents the interests of the prisoner. Sovetsky District Court of Lipetsk in April 2021 Pavlyutkin to the year of a colony-settlement under the article on the use of violence against police officers (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). This decision was left unchanged.

Politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, accused of “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), was transferred to -5 Moscow “Vodnik”. About this in the telegram channel “Soloviev of a Healthy Person”. The pre-trial detention center was reported to the Basmanny District Court on April 22 for two months. arrested About the criminal case against the politician the day before from his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

In Tver, searches were conducted at the homes of local activists Iven Sobolev, Veronika Timakina and Alena Lakomkina. Artyom Vazhenkov, former coordinator of Open Russia, talks about this.

On May 11, the Sakhalin Regional Court left unchanged the suspended sentences of five Jehovah's Witnesses Evgeniy Elin, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Alexander Kozlitin and spouses Sergei and Tatyana Kulakov. The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. reports At the end of January, the court sentenced Sergei Kulakov and Evgeniy Elin to six and a half years probation under the article on organizing the activities of a prohibited organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Primorsky Regional Court of Vladivostok approved a suspended sentence for Jehovah's Witness Sergei Melnikov. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. The Ussuriysky District Court of the Primorsky Territory reports that on February 3, the believer received three years of suspended imprisonment on charges of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

In Moscow, human rights activist Denis Eliseev was detained near the Council of the Federation Council due to a single picket with a poster “Citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to gather peacefully”. This was announced by Avtozak Live. The human rights activist was taken to the Tver police department. Denis Eliseev's detention / photo: Avtozak Live 14:00 Detained by the Federation Council Polina Zhukovskaya was released from the Tverskaya police department without a protocol.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced the defendants in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Tofik Abdulgaziev, Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, Izzet Abdullaev, Medzhit Abdurakhmanov to 12 years of strict regime, and Bilyal Adilov to 14 years of strict regime, “Crimean Solidarity”. reports All those convicted will have to spend the first five years in prison. Adilov was also sentenced to one and a half years, and the rest to a year of restriction of freedom after release.

The Supreme Court of Khakassia rejected the complaint against the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the online publication “New Focus” Mikhail Afanasyev,” human rights activist Pavel Chikov. Afanasyev reports on April 15 in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army, disseminated using his official position (clause “a”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

Tula LGBT activist Alexander Hots has not been in contact - since March 28, he was sentenced to 15 days of arrest twice in a row. His friends told OVD-Info about this. The first 15 days of arrest for Hotsu were ordered by the Central District Court of Tula on March 28. The reason for this was publications with the symbols of Alexei Navalny’s organizations (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).