Kirill Butylin, convicted of arson at the military registration and enlistment office, spoke in a letter to a participant in the Solidarity Zone project about the threats he received from security forces during the investigation into the case. Draft excerpt from the letter. published According to Butylin, when he was in the Kolomna pre-trial detention center in the summer of 2022, they tried to force him to say the phrase “Putin is handsome” on camera.

On April 10, the administration of correctional colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region sent Alexei Navalny to a punishment cell for the thirteenth time. The politician spoke about this in his letter, which was published by his associates. “On Friday evening I left the punishment cell, and on Monday (that is, yesterday) I again received 15 days,” writes Navalny.

Timur Yalkabov, convicted in one of the Crimean cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir, has been kept in a punishment cell (SHIZO) for two months. This is reported by "Crimean Solidarity" with reference to the wife of the prisoner Aliya Muzhdabayeva. On February 9, Yalkabov was sent to the ShIZO of Prison No. 1 in Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) for 12 days after several personal searches with the seizure of belongings and prayer rugs.

A court in Moscow refused to exclude publicist and political scientist Valery Solovy from the register of “foreign agents.” The TASS news agency reports this with reference to a court ruling. Solovey himself filed an administrative claim against the Ministry of Justice, which added him to the register of media “foreign agents” in September 2022. The court also stated that Nightingale was added to the list because he received funds of more than 2.7 million rubles from Google Corporation.

The Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk returned to the police a protocol against Konstantin Tolkachev, who organized a rally for the return of direct mayoral elections. this The activist announced on his Telegram channel. In early March, the deputy head of the police department refused to open an administrative case against Tolkachev under the "rally" article (part 1 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) contrary to the demands of city administration officials.

The Investigative Committee for Crimea opened a criminal case against a resident of Sudak for repeatedly discrediting the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). The regional IC spoke about this in its press release.

Daniel Balazeikin, the father of high school student Yegor Balazeikin, who is in a pre-trial detention center as a suspect in the arson of two military registration and enlistment offices, was fired from his job after security forces came there in connection with the case against Yegor. About this "Politzek-Info". reports Balazeikin worked as an electrician for three years in a commercial company.

Ufa security officials came to the editorial office of the publication “Proof.RF”, the journalists themselves said so. They report that equipment was confiscated from the premises, and the political observer of the publication Ramil Rakhmetov was given a summons to the city police department No. 4 to draw up a protocol on an administrative violation.

The Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory opened a criminal case against a Jehovah's Witness from the village of Pavlovskaya, who participated in online religious conferences. The regional IC reported this in a press release.

Eduard Mochalov, editor of the independent newspaper Bribe, is being tried to recover funds for a forensic examination of his statements, which became the basis for drawing up a protocol on discrediting the army (part 1, article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This is reported by the telegram channel "Angry Chuvashia". The Morgaushsky District Court of Chuvashia received a claim “for reimbursement of expenses incurred” from the Chuvash laboratory of forensic examination.

A criminal case was opened against Alexey B., a resident of the city of Tynda in the Amur Region, because of comments in Odnoklassniki about politicians Sergei Chemezov and Denis Manturov. About this ASTRA. reports that a 34-year-old man is charged with incitement to terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), he is under recognizance not to leave the place.

A resident of the Kaliningrad region, Sergei Chursin, was sentenced to two years of forced labor for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. The press service of the Chernyakhov City Court reported this. reports that a 30-year-old man was found guilty of attempted intentional destruction of someone else's property by arson (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).

In the city of Vorsma, Nizhny Novgorod region, security forces opened a criminal case for desecration of the flag (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) against a man who removed the flag from the flagpole on the police department building. About this ASTRA. reports According to investigators, on April 3, a 34-year-old man removed the flag.

On the evening of April 4, nine Jehovah's Witnesses in St. Petersburg were searched. The website “Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia” is about this. reports Six believers aged from 40 to 68 years old were sent for questioning to the Investigative Committee, where they spent the whole night. During the searches, security forces seized books, notebooks and notepads with personal notes, hard drives, electronic devices, Bibles of various publications, and even a videotape recording a wedding.

On April 3, the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court of Tatarstan received a criminal case about repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Dmitry Slabkovsky. Information about this is on the court's website. The details of the case are still unknown.