The prosecutor, during a hearing in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, requested 11 years in a maximum security colony for Crimean citizen Yashar Shikhametov, accused in the case of participation in the terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) “Hizb ut-Tahrir”. Crimean Solidarity reports this. The prosecution also asked to imprison Shikhametov for the first four years of his sentence - the harshest place to serve his sentence.

Human rights activist and former defendant in the “ ABTO case ” Ivan Astashin spoke about police pressure on the owner of the St. Petersburg apartment in which he rents a room. about it . writes SOTA According to Astashin, the security forces demand that the woman stop renting housing to him. The human rights activist moved into this room a month ago, but has not yet had time to issue a temporary registration (three months are given for this).

The Central District Court of Kemerovo fined local resident Oleg Ilchenko because of a comment proposing to separate Moscow from Russia. The SOVA Information and Analytical Center drew attention to the court's decision . The man was found guilty under an administrative article about public calls for violation of the territorial integrity of Russia, committed on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 20.3.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has put Pussy Riot member Anna Kuzminykh on the wanted list - previously a case was opened against the activist for desecration of the flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code). RBC pays attention to this. turned The reason for criminal prosecution was an anti-war performance in Tbilisi, the participants of which burned an effigy with a photograph of Vladimir Putin and a Russian flag. About the initiation of the case on May 13.

The Leninsky District Court of Barnaul fined RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who is under arrest due to a criminal case about “fake news” about the Russian army, 15 thousand rubles. The SOVA Information and Analytical Center drew attention to the court's decision . Ponomarenko was found guilty under the administrative article of inciting hatred or enmity (Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code).

On July 1, the Ukhta City Court of the Komi Republic imposed a fine on local resident Alexander Loginov because of the repost of the banned video “Let's Remind the Rogues and Thieves of their Manifesto-2002”. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova". The fine amounted to one thousand rubles under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A second criminal case was opened against the former coordinator of Navalny’s Kostroma headquarters, Alexander Zykov, for “fakes” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The oppositionist reported this on his Telegram channel. The reason for criminal prosecution was Zykov’s post, in which he posted correspondence with a friend from the Sumy region (Ukraine). The girl claimed that due to constant shelling, she had to sit in the basement with her family.

The case of Jehovah's Witnesses Mikhail Ermakov, Zoya Pavlova, Nina and Andrey Martynov was transferred for consideration to the Alatyrsky District Court of the Chuvash Republic.

Novosibirsk activist Pavel Lukin, immediately after an examination in the case of a false report about mining, was taken to court in an administrative case due to posts on VKontakte. The detainee himself told OVD-Info about this; the information was also confirmed by lawyer Elena Chirkina. 19-year-old Lukin is a witness in a criminal case regarding a false report of mining (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code). In May, he was searched, during which security forces seized his computer.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law "On Control over the Activities of Persons Under Foreign Influence" - the document is published on the official portal of legal information. The amendments will come into force on December 1: from that moment on, the authorities will be able to recognize as "foreign agents" persons who do not receive foreign funding - for this it will be enough to be under "foreign influence".

On July 11, the Yalta City Court softened the preventive measure for Jehovah's Witnesses Taras Kuzio, Sergei Lyulin and Pyotr Zhiltsov - they were given a ban on certain actions instead of house arrest.

On July 11, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don extended the term of detention for defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, Zavur Abdullayev, Dzhebbar Bekirov, Rustem Murasov and Rustem Tairov. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity". The defendants will remain in jail for at least another three months.

Roskomnadzor continues to apply military censorship and on July 13 blocked 23 more resources on the Internet. attention to this .

On July 13, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow changed the measure of restraint for the Left Bloc supporters Ruslan Abasov and Lev Skoryakin - they were released from the pretrial detention center and were banned from certain actions. This was reported by lawyers from OVD-Info Alexander Salamov and Evgeniya Grigoryeva, who are defending Abasov and Skoryakin.

OVD-Info begins to provide legal assistance to those who are persecuted for anti-war statements. Previously, we provided defenders and lawyers only in cases of freedom of assembly - in case of arrests at rallies and solo pickets, for calls to protest. But we see that the nature and practice of violations of the right to freedom of expression is changing. We are changing too.