The prosecutor approved the indictment in the criminal case of arson of the administration of the city of Bakala in the Chelyabinsk region, which was filed against musicians Alexei Nuriev and Roman Nasryev. This is reported by the Solidarity Zone project. The case is set to go to trial this week.

On January 12, the first cassation court of general jurisdiction in Saratov upheld the verdict of the spouses Alevtina and Artem Bagratyan, Andrei Andreev, Alexander Vospitanyuk and Andrei Ryshkov. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. Most of the believers are already free.

Olga Nazarenko, a civil activist from Ivanovo, was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding the preliminary investigation. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev, who represents the woman’s interests.

The Supreme Court of Crimea upheld the verdict of the defendant in the case of “fake news” about the Russian army, Alexander Tarapon. This was reported by the representative office of the President of Ukraine in Crimea. On October 21, 2022, the Alushta City Court sentenced Tarapon to two and a half years in a maximum security colony.

On January 16, the Supreme Court of Mordovia approved the verdict of Jehovah's Witnesses Vladimir Atryakhin, Georgy and Elena Nikulin, Alexander Shevchuk, Denis Antonov and Alexander Korolev, who were previously sentenced to real terms. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” reports this. Believers participated in the court hearing via video conferencing from pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Saransk. They intend to challenge the decision in the Court of Cassation.

On January 16, the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar removed the status of “foreign agent” from lawyer Mikhail Benyash until the end of consideration of his claim against the Ministry of Justice for recognition as a “foreign agent.” Advokatskaya Street reports this. The court took preliminary measures to protect the lawyer: during this period, Benyash does not need to use the “foreign agent” label and send reports on “foreign agent” activities to the Ministry of Justice.

The Second Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Moscow overturned the decision to release from punishment 67-year-old air traffic controller Pyotr Parpulov, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison under the article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). His case was sent for a new trial, writes the "First Department". Parapulov was sentenced in 2016; during his imprisonment, the man was diagnosed with cancer.

The Central District Military Court of Yekaterinburg has begun to consider the case of Nizhnevartovsk resident Vasily Gavrilishen, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office. About this SOTA, the cases are on the court’s website. reports. the card According to investigators, the man agreed for a monetary reward to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office to express disagreement with the war in Ukraine.

Oleg Prikhodko / ґrati The Voroshilovsky District Court in Rostov-on-Don for a month increased the term of imprisonment to Crimean Oleg Prikhodko-earlier he was already convicted by five years in the case of the preparation of a terrorist attack. This is reported by "ґrati." On January 17, the court found Prikhodko guilty of insulting the participants in the trial (part 1 of article 297 of the Criminal Code) and added a month of the colony of strict regime to the previous sentence.

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Former director of Open Russia Andrei Pivovarov was taken to pre-trial detention center-5 in St. Petersburg. A fragment of his letter was published in the telegram channel of the politician’s team. “I’ve been in my hometown for 4 whole days. It seems cooler, the conditions are so-so, but I’m practically happy. They're about to send it on, but for now I'm enjoying it. It’s a funny feeling, but even the guards here are somehow... St. Petersburg,” Pivovarov wrote in a letter to his comrades.

Detained on August 22, 2022 by facial recognition cameras, a resident of Moscow, Sergei Batanov, who had previously repeatedly participated in protests, told OVD-Info about pressure from the security forces. According to the man, on January 10 he was going to court to file an administrative lawsuit to challenge his August detention, but he was stopped on the street by the security forces and taken to the police department in the Livoberezhny district.

The Third Court of Cassation in St. Petersburg approved the sentence for Memorial historian and human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev - 15 years in a maximum security colony. SOTA reported this. Dmitriev himself attended the meeting via video link from correctional colony No. 18 in Mordovia.

In Moscow, two civil activists were detained for protests against cutting down the Red Book forest. This was told by the defender from OVD-Info Evgeny Kurakin. Now they are being taken to the Troitsk police department. According to SOTA, the defenders of the Trinity Forest were detained after a scuffle with workers installing a fence around a site that they plan to cut down. 13:33 Defender from OVD-Info Yevgeny Kurakin spoke about the detention of another defender of the Trinity Forest.

A criminal case was opened against an activist from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Dmitry Samoilenko, because of an “obscene picture” that an FSB officer discovered while searching for anti-war records. He talked about this in an interview with Sibir.Realii. told In October, Samoilenko came to Center “E” to get his smartphone, which was seized as evidence in the case of discrediting the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).