The Moscow City Court reduced the prison term of Anastasia Levashova, a participant in the anti-war rally on February 24, by two months. Trusted sources reported this to OVD-Info. On March 28, Levashov was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony. The girl was accused of using violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, during the protest she threw a Molotov cocktail towards the police.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended the period of detention of nurse Maxim Asriyan, who is accused of attempting to commit a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code) due to an attempt to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This is reported by SOTA. The meeting was held behind closed doors; the period for extending the preventive measure is unknown.

Since August 2022, at least three residents of Kemerovo have been fined under the article on the distribution of extremist materials (Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the publication of the song “Kill the Astronauts” by the Ensemble of Christ the Savior and Mother Earth Cheese on social networks. This was reported by the Information and Analytical Center "Sova".

The Metallurgical District Court of Chelyabinsk sentenced electrician and Jehovah's Witness Vadim Gizatulin to two years of probation. He was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. The charges were based on audio and video recordings of religious meetings in which Gizatulin participated. The man did not admit guilt.

On December 5, the Fifth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction in Pyatigorsk overturned the sentence and appellate ruling in the case of 58-year-old disabled Jehovah's Witness Elena Menchikova. The case was sent for a new trial, Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia website. reports In December 2021, the Cherkessk City Court sentenced the believer to five years of suspended imprisonment, in February 2022 the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia sentenced her.

The Central District Court of Chelyabinsk decided to release activist Anastasia Safonova from pre-trial detention center No. 3, who was previously found guilty of hooliganism motivated by political enmity (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) because of the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.” Human rights activist Pavel Chikov talks about this. reports The head of the pre-trial detention center made such a request to the court.

The first appeal of the general jurisdiction in Moscow approved the verdict - 22 years in a maximum security colony and a fine of 500 thousand rubles - journalist Ivan Safronov. This was reported by RIA Novosti. Ivan Safronov during the announcement of the court decision / photo: Alexander Chernykh The judge also upheld the decision on the appointment of Safronov two years of restriction of freedom after serving the main punishment.

Vladimir Domnin, convicted in the case of participation in the “banned in Russia”, was sent to a punishment cell in IK-3 in Uglich (Yaroslavl region) twice in the last month. His wife Natalya told OVD-Info about this. In the right sector, on November 17, Domnin was sent to a punishment cell for five days, allegedly due to the lack of a tag on his clothes, and on December 6 - for another five days, because, according to the colony staff, he was sitting on the bed at the wrong time.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center until May 25, 2023 for the defendant in the “palace case” Alexey Klimashev. This was reported by Klimashev’s lawyer from OVD-Info, Maxim Ovchinnikov. The man is charged with using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during the January protests in support of Navalny in 2021. Klimashev was detained on March 30, 2022.

The Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod extended until February 10, 2023 the period of compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital for Nizhny Novgorod Pastafarian and activist Alexei Onoshkin. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Kristina Tyurina, who represents the man’s interests in court. At the same time, the court went beyond the treatment period recommended by psychiatrists - 30-60 days, which expire at the end of this year.

Anti-fascist Alexey Runov told Mediazone that in January 2018, when he lived in St. Petersburg in the same apartment with Igor Shishkin, a defendant in the Network case, FSB officers tortured him with electric shock. told According to Runov, on January 25, 2018, when FSB officers burst into the apartment, only he and Shishkin’s wife Tatyana were at home.

The detention of Nikita Tushkanov. Photo: Telegram channel "Komi is well"

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has extended the detention of a geodesic scientist and former official of the Birobidzhan mayor's office, Valery Kachin. He is accused under the article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Information about this is available on the website of the court. The investigation asked to extend Kachin's arrest until March 12.

The Kaluga District Court rejected the claim for the transfer of compensation for illegal criminal prosecution in the amount of 25 thousand rubles to the father of political prisoner Ivan Lyubshin, Viktor. He told OVD-Info about this. The judge ruled that the compensation will go to Ivan Lyubshin’s account in correctional colony No. 1 in the Yaroslavl region, where he is serving his sentence. Representatives of the Ministry of Finance demanded this at the meeting.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk satisfied the civil suit of Andrey Kaygorodtsev, Yulia Kostenich and Viktor Poddubny to recognize their detention and delivery to the police department as illegal. The court decided to recover from the Ministry of Internal Affairs three thousand rubles in compensation in favor of each of the plaintiffs. This was told by the lawyer from OVD-Info Vasily Dubkov, who helped the activists.