The Tverskoy District Court arrested for 15 days Ilya Pivovarov, a journalist from the agency “To be honest,” who filmed the laying of a funeral wreath at the Prosecutor General’s Office - the event “The Law is Buried Here.” He was also assigned compulsory work. This was reported by the defense attorney from OVD-Info, Valentina Chekhova, who represented the interests of the man. Laying wreaths on May 18, then security forces detained two activists and Pivovarov.

The Miass City Court in the Chelyabinsk Region sentenced local resident Sergei Korneev to two years in a general regime colony in the case of calls to sabotage the mobilization. About the verdict without mentioning the name “Kommersant” with reference to the press service of the regional FSB Directorate. reports The fact that the convicted person’s name is Sergei Korneev follows from the case on the court’s website, attention of Mediazona. He was detained in February 2023.

Taekwondo coach Teymur Abdullayev, sentenced to a long term in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, spent more than 750 days in a punishment cell at IK-16 in Salavat. This is what the Crimean Solidarity movement is about. reports Crimean Tatar told his lawyer Edem Semedlyaev that they began to place him in a punishment cell after he refused to cooperate with representatives of the special services.

In Tolyatti, on May 16, investigators from the Investigative Committee and the FSB conducted searches in at least three houses of Jehovah's Witnesses; two believers became defendants in a criminal case. This is a portal covering the persecution of believers. reports 34-year-old Alexander Dolganov and 36-year-old Sona Olopova became suspects under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Svetlana Arshavskaya, an employee of the Orenburg human rights organization “Everyone’s Right,” was charged with drug trafficking (Part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code). The founder of the organization, Aidana Fedosik, reported this to OVD-Info. Arshavskaya was given a recognizance not to leave the place, and she partially admitted her guilt.

The Zheleznogorsk City Court (Krasnoyarsk Territory) suspended the proceedings in the case of local resident Roman Balyasin, who was detained while trying to paint over the letter Z. The relevant information is indicated in the case file on the court’s website. The court stated as the reason for this decision: “The defendant fled.” Balyasin actually left Russia in mid-April.

On May 18, the Mytishchi City Court extended until November 5 the detention in the pre-trial detention center of Alexander Bakhtin, who is being prosecuted under the article of distributing “fake news” about the army based on political enmity (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Nikita Spivak, who represents the man’s interests. Bakhtin has been in pre-trial detention center-2 in Volokolamsk since the beginning of March.

The prosecutor's office transferred to court a criminal case about military “fakes” against blogger Michael Naki and the founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team investigative project Ruslan Leviev. Please pay attention to Avtozak LIVE on the portal of the capital's courts. The recording drew the criminal case will be considered by the Basmanny District Court of Moscow.

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized the organization Greenpeace International (Greenpeace), registered in the Netherlands, as “undesirable”. The corresponding press release is on the department's website. posted The department believes that the fund's efforts to protect the environment undermine the economic foundations of the Russian state and interfere with the implementation of profitable projects.

Crimean Tatar Mambet Asan-Usta said that he was kidnapped after traffic police officers detained him: unknown people put a bag on the man’s head, took him to Simferopol and asked about the sabotage on the railway in the village of Chistenkoye. Then Asan-Usta was released, writes . Crimean Solidarity On the evening of May 18, the towed car of a man was stopped by traffic police officers to check the documents.

The criminal case of a mechanic and activist from Tver Ivan Kudryashov, accused of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office, was sent to court for consideration on the merits. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone telegram channel. The criminal case will be considered by the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow.

In the Astrakhan region, a criminal case was opened against a 28-year-old resident of the village of Petropavlovka, Ilya Z., for publicly justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of comments on VKontakte. About this “Caution. News". According to investigators, in September 2022, a man left five comments in news groups on VKontakte, where he proposed gathering a group of people to oust Putin and officials.

The ex-head of Open Russia, Andrey Pivovarov, was transferred to strict conditions of detention (SUS) in penal colony No. 7 in Karelia. This was reported in the telegram channel of his team. SUS is an additional measure of punishment. Under such conditions, the prisoner cannot freely move around the territory of the colony, he is kept in a locked cell, and less time is allotted for walks.

The administration of the city of Buynaksk (Dagestan) did not agree on a rally against the arbitrariness of the head of the local police department, Zakir Gerekhanov. This is reported by the publication "7 × 7" with reference to "Chernovik" . A participant in the war in Ukraine, Arslan Arslanbekov, was denied permission to hold a rally on the central square due to the lack of information about the location of the organizer of the rally and about those who will lead the rally on the spot.

A resident of Ryazan is suspected of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) due to comments on the social network. The press service of the regional Investigative Committee reported this. reports The case was opened by the Zheleznodorozhny Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, “operational support” is handled by the FSB.