The Frunzensky District Court of the city of Ivanovo extended until June 25, 2023 the ban on certain actions of local resident Stanislav Rumyantsev in the case of the inscription “No to war! No to fascism! Putin is a killer” on the facade of the Russian President’s reception building. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev, who is involved in the case. The court extended the same preventive measure that it imposed on Rumyantsev on March 3.

Sofya Sapuga / Socials The Presnensky District Court of Moscow registered the case of Sophia Sapieha, which the court in Grodno (Belarus) earlier sentenced to six years on charges of administering the opposition telegram channel. Attention to the card was drawn to the Mediazon.

The Stavropol Regional Court has refused to challenge the defendants in the case of protests in Ingushetia for judges in the case and appointed lawyers, the Memorial Human Rights Defense Center reported.

The First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction rejected the claim of the Moscow Helsinki Group and approved the decision of the lower court to liquidate the organization. This was reported by the telegram channel of the movement “For Human Rights”. The Moscow City Court liquidated the MHG on January 25, 2023 at the request of the Ministry of Justice.

Bills have been introduced into the State Duma that would introduce administrative liability for non-compliance with legislation on “foreign agents” and prohibit circumvention of restrictions for “foreign agents.” The texts of the introduced bills are posted on the website of the System for Supporting Legislative Activities (,). Earlier, the head of the Duma Security Committee Vasily Piskarev made the amendments in his telegram channel.

Crimean activist Irina Danilovich, who is in a pre-trial detention center, was tricked into ending her hunger strike: she was never provided with the treatment promised several weeks ago. “Crimea.Realities” talks about this with reference to the woman’s father, Bronislav Danilovich. In March, the activist reported a hunger strike due to the fact that she was not provided with medical care: while in prison, she developed otitis media, dizziness and headaches.

Lyudmila Schekoldina / Photo: "Jehovah's Witnesses" In the female correctional colony No. 28 of the Volgograd region, the health of Jehovah's witness Lyudmila Skokoldina worsens, she needs an additional medical examination. This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses." Shchekoldina repeatedly wrote a statement to the colony with a request to take her out for examination to a medical institution.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has refused to allow US diplomats to visit the arrested American journalist Evan Gershkovich. This was reported by the department itself. Russian diplomats called this "retaliatory measures" to the "provocative actions" of the US mission: earlier, the latter refused visas to journalists who were supposed to accompany Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to New York for a meeting of the UN Security Council.

The Pervorechensky District Court, upon retrial, sentenced local Jehovah's Witness Dmitry Barmakin to eight years in prison. Earlier, the same court acquitted the man. The Jehovah's Witnesses portal is about this. reports The believer was also sentenced to restriction of freedom for a period of one year after serving the main sentence. The trial was held behind closed doors. Previously, prosecutor Barmakina received nine years of imprisonment and a year of additional restriction of freedom.

The Moscow City Court upheld the claim of the Ministry of Justice to liquidate the SOVA Information and Analytical Center. Human rights activists themselves talk about this. The Ministry of Justice reported a lawsuit on March 10 following the results of an unscheduled inspection that took place in the organization from January 9 to February 4.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court approved the decision to recover 565 thousand rubles from five residents of Yekaterinburg for police work at the rally on January 31, 2021. This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti. This decision was made by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg on November 18, 2022. The defendants in the case are politician Yevgeny Roizman, as well as Irina Norman, Victoria Reich, Kirill Serebrennikov and Sergei Chechenev.

Police stopped a bus on which 25 activists from the village of Poltavskaya were traveling to Krasnodar to appeal to the regional governor with a demand to close the landfill. They themselves reported this to OVD-Info. At least 15 security officials stopped the vehicle in the village of Ivanovskaya and began drawing up a report against the bus driver for not working (Article 11.23 of the Administrative Code). As a result, the man became ill and was unable to transport passengers.

The Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment in the case of blogger and politician Maxim Katz, who is accused of spreading “fakes” about the army motivated by political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The corresponding message was posted on the department’s telegram channel, initially they wrote about the approval of the conclusion in the case of Mikhail Katz.

On April 26, the Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced four Jehovah's witnesses to fines for a total of 2 million 195 thousand rubles due to a friendly musical evening. This was reported by the portal about the persecution of representatives of this faith in Russia. Sergei Malyanov is accused of organizing the activities of an extremist association (part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The Moscow City Court stopped considering the complaint of politician Vladimir Kara-Murza about the illegal initiation of a criminal case under articles on participation in an “undesirable organization” (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code) and treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the telegram channel of the movement “For Human Rights”.