The Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region announced the initiation of a criminal case against 66-year-old and 45-year-old Jehovah's Witnesses from Rybinsk. Believers are accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Novosibirsk Governor Andrey Travnikov signed a decree on lifting some of the anti-coronavirus restrictions in the region. attention to the relevant document . drew The Taiga.Info publication The document removes some of the restrictions imposed by the decree of the regional government "On the introduction of the high alert regime" dated March 18, 2020.

A court in Belgorod terminated the administrative case against Roman Voloshin, who was photographed with a picketer. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7". In June, student Ilya Kostyukov held a one-man picket in Belgorod in defense of trolleybuses. Roman Voloshin, who was passing by, took a picture next to the picketer, and then posted the photo on social networks.

The Savyolovsky District Court of Moscow fined human rights activist Marina Litvinovich under the article on violation of rally legislation (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) due to her participation in a meeting of ex-State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin with voters in September 2021. Litvinovich reports this in his telegram channel. Her interests were represented by lawyers from OVD-Info Yulia Tregubova and Yulia Evdokimova.

The Investigative Committee for the Orenburg region reported on the completion of an investigation against a 46-year-old local resident. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to the agency's website . The man is charged with articles on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 1 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) and the spread of “fake news” about the coronavirus (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow refused to remove Dozhd journalist Maria Borzunova’s “foreign agent” status. She spoke about this in her Telegram channel. The Ministry of Justice included the journalist in the register of media “foreign agents” on April 1, 2022.

Lawyer Dmitry Talantov, who is accused of spreading fakes about the Russian army, was not allocated a bed in the pre-trial detention center. His defender Daniil Berman talks about this. The 61-year-old man was told by employees of Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 4 that he was offered to sleep on the floor. “He is taken from cell to cell, but Detention Center 4 is so overcrowded that you can only sleep on the floor of the cell in the passage,” Berman wrote.

On July 12, the Ninth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Vladivostok overturned the sentence of Jehovah's Witness from Birobidzhan, Evgeniy Egorov. This was reported on the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia”. The believer’s case was sent for reconsideration to the appellate court - the Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region. In June 2021, the Birobidzhansky District Court sentenced Egorov to two and a half years probation.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Tula region, Dmitry Antonov, under the article on inciting hatred (clause “a”, part 2 of article 282). He told SOTA about this. reported According to the young man, the reason for the case was two of his posts on VKontakte.

A 34-year-old resident of Volgograd named Aleksey (surname unknown) was detained because of a barefoot photograph against the backdrop of the Eternal Flame. This is reported by the publication V102.ru. According to preliminary information, the man is charged with an article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Unidentified persons in masks detained Crimean Solidarity activist Rolan Osmanov near the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea in Simferopol. Now the man is in the building of the Center for Combating Extremism (CPE). This was reported on the website of the movement. In December 2021, the Kievsky District Court fined Osmanov 15,000 rubles for participating in a meeting of Crimean Tatars near the FSB building in Simferopol on September 4 — he was filming and filming what was happening.

In Moscow, near the Basmanny Court, where a court hearing to impose a preventive measure on politician Ilya Yashin, accused of “fakes” about the Russian army, is about to begin, mass arrests have begun. This is reported by eyewitnesses, the detainees themselves and defenders from OVD-Info. On July 13, Yashin was charged under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army based on political hatred (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The FSB Directorate for the Pskov Region opened a criminal case against 44-year-old Elena Kuzmina under the article on calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of posts on VKontakte. This was reported by Pskov Province. The case was opened due to publications critical of the Russian government and the president, which Kuzmina published in 2019–2020. FSB Lieutenant D.

RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko, accused in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army, said in a letter to a friend that in a psychiatric hospital she was forcibly injected with an unknown drug. The publication published excerpts from the letter on its Telegram channel. Ponomarenko was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to the Altai Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital on June 2. Now she is again in isolation. “There was trash going on there.

FSB officers reported the initiation of a criminal case under the article on "fakes" about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against Rostov-on-Don journalist Sergei Reznik. RIA Novosti reported this. writes Reznik is a suspect in the case.