On March 9, a court in Moscow fined local resident Pavel Petryakov 30,000 rubles under the article on desecration of religious symbols (part 2, article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). attention to the court's decision .

The Ministry of Justice has again added to the register of “foreign agents”. About this on the department's website. The register includes : - investigative journalist Hristo Grozev, - Karelian journalist and femme activist Natalya Sevets-Ermolina, - Moscow politician Elvira Vikhareva, - human rights organization "School of the Conscript", - journalistic project "Lawyer Street".

The City Hall of Cheboksar refused to the local branch of the Communist Party of the rally on the birthday of Lenin on April 22. This was reported by the telegram channel "Averse Chuvashia". Officials explained the refusal of anticoronavirus measures that have been operating since 2020. Photo: "Angry Chuvashia" After mass infection with coronavirus in March 2020, the authorities introduced the regime of self -isolation and quarantine.

The Prosecutor General’s Office refused to investigate the torture of the detainees in the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs of Bratevo. This was announced in his telegram channel by the deputy of the Moscow City Duma Evgeny Stupin. The torture in Bratevo was reported by several girls detained at the anti -war action on March 6, 2022. The detainee on that day, Alexander Kaluzhsky, managed to record a conversation with a police officer in the department.

A court in the Leningrad region softened the preventive measure and released from custody under house arrest businessman Dmitry Skurikhin, a defendant in two cases of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This is what “Network Freedom” is about. The Lomonosovsky District Court refused to satisfy the investigator's request to extend Skurikhin's detention in the pre-trial detention center. The activist has been in custody since February 26.

Citizens of Belarus Artyom Bressky and Kirill Basko were arrested in the case of sabotage on the railway (clause “b” part 2 of article 281 of the Criminal Code). It is reported by "Mediazona"; the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow received petitions to extend his arrest ( 1 , 2 ). Young people born in 2003 and 2004 were detained on December 27, 2022 at the Moscow Kurskaya station, the newspaper writes.

A criminal case was opened against a resident of the Jewish Autonomous Region under the article on justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to publications in the messenger about the arson of military registration and enlistment offices. The RIA Birobidzhan publication reported this with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB. Mediazona pays attention to media publications about this.

Animal rights activist Yury Koretsky was detained near the State Duma. He himself confirmed this information to OVD-Info. The activist is charged with organizing the collection of signatures against the euthanasia of homeless animals. The detainee was taken to the Tverskoy base camp. The security forces threaten to take away his phone. In mid-April, State Duma deputy Sardana Avksentieva put forward a bill to that effect.

A criminal case was opened against a 54-year-old resident of the Kirov region, Andrei E., under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army. The ASTRA telegram channel is about this. reports The reason for the criminal case was the reposting in Odnoklassniki of news broadcasts and media publications about Russian war crimes in Ukraine, including in .

The Moscow prosecutor's office for the fourth time canceled the decision to refuse to open a criminal case in connection with the kidnapping of a gay man from Chechnya, Ibragim Selimkhanov. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii with reference to the SOS Crisis Group. In October, the Perovskaya inter-district prosecutor's office announced "gross red tape" on the part of the Investigative Committee during the verification of a complaint about the abduction of a man.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the "Union of Residents of the Chishima and Habomai Islands" (Japan) as an "undesirable organization". About this in the telegram channel of the department.

The Investigative Committee for Crimea and Sevastopol has completed its investigation into the case of two Jehovah's Witnesses, who are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The department writes about this on its website. We are probably talking about Viktor Kudinov and Sergei Zhigalov, against whom a criminal case was opened at the end of August 2022. The believers' case has been brought to court.

A 47-year-old resident of Sevastopol accused of treason is suspected of planning to commit a terrorist attack. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol. According to the press service, the man planned to set fire to the administrative building, but did not have time, as in December 2022 he was detained on suspicion of treason.

On April 20, the Supreme Court of Altai approved the sentence of Jehovah's Witness Alexander Kalistratov - six and a half years of suspended imprisonment. This was reported by the portal, which covers the persecution of believers of this denomination. “I have been a Jehovah’s Witness for 29 years. And our state did not suffer from this in any way, and the constitutional system was not destroyed.

The Kansk City Court of the Krasnoyarsk Territory sentenced a 35-year-old English teacher to two years and ten days in a general regime colony in the case of shooting at a banner advertising military service under contract. About this with reference to lawyer Vladimir Vasin "Prospekt Mira".