The Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala sentenced local resident Zainulla Abdullaev to three and a half years in prison in the case of participation in the activities of “Citizens of the USSR”. This was reported by the SOVA Research Center. Abdullaev was sentenced on April 12, 2023. The man was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization and participating in it (part 1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

A protocol was drawn up against the founder of the First Department, Ivan Pavlov, under the article on failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2, Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported by the project itself. In addition, the lawyer was summoned to draw up the eighth protocol due to the violation of the procedure for the activities of a "foreign agent". What exactly he is charged with is unknown.

Politics Lyubov Sobol and opera singer Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs were fined due to violating the procedure for the activities of “foreign agents”. Mediazona reports this . Sobol was imposed a fine of 40 thousand rubles under the article on failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). The case was heard by the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow.

On October 30, the Central District Military Court sentenced four residents of the Tyumen region to real terms and one to a fine. They were accused of spreading the ideas of the revival of the USSR and the end of the Russian state. Information about this was published on the court’s website, to which drew attention. SOTA The case was heard on the premises of the Tyumen Regional Court.

There was information about persecution for political reasons. The hero of the news, who previously gave OVD-Info consent to publish the incident, asked to delete his story for security reasons. As a human rights project, we cannot ignore such requests, so we are deleting the text of the news.

The Prosecutor General's Office has recognized the organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses registered in Ukraine, the USA and Germany as “undesirable”.

The prosecutor's office approved the indictment in the case against Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov under the article of inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). Alsynov himself spoke about this in his Telegram channel. “Today I visited the prosecutor’s office of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

On November 1, the Shebekinsky District Court of the Belgorod Region arrested a local resident for a month and 19 days in a case of illegal possession of weapons. The court's press service does not give his name. The publication “Ashes” writes that we are talking about 61-year-old volunteer Alexander Demidenko, who helped Ukrainian refugees. As the press service of the court reported, the man was charged with storing explosive devices in his home.

In the building of the Vyborg District Court of St. Petersburg, Leonid Nikolaev was detained, who came to a hearing in the case of documentarian Vsevolod Korolev, accused of distributing military “fakes.” this . reports SOTAvision After the end of the meeting, a skirmish arose between Nikolaev and the bailiff; both claim that one pushed the other. The man was taken to the bailiffs' room, and soon the police arrived at the court. As a result, Nikolaev was taken to police department No. 36.

Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin, who was kidnapped from a Bishkek shelter, was beaten by FSB officers during interrogation at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. He told about this to the lawyer from OVD-Info, Evgenia Grigorieva, who visited him in pre-trial detention center-2 “Butyrka”. On October 12, he was detained at the exit from the hostel by officers of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Kyrgyzstan and taken to the Oktyabrsky police department.

A criminal case was opened against the leader of the Kamchatka branch of the Yabloko party, journalist and pensioner Vladimir Efimov, for repeated demonstration of prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code) because of a post criticizing the singer SHAMAN and footage from an anti-fascist film. This was reported by the SOVA Research Center and ASTRA .

During the debate in the Elista City Court, the prosecutor asked to sentence the editor-in-chief of the publication “Modern Kalmykia” Valery Badmaev to three years in a penal colony in the case of repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). this .

Nikita Oleynik, a defendant in the “Tyumen case,” was transferred from pre-trial detention center-1 in Tyumen to pre-trial detention center-2 in Zavodoukovsk. This was reported by his support group in the telegram channel. The young man’s relatives received a letter from which they learned about the transfer. It is unknown for what reasons he was transferred. The case against the Ural anti-fascists became known in September 2022.

The ECHR awarded compensation from four to five and a half thousand euros for 28 complaints from the Memorial Human Rights Center and OVD-Info regarding the right to peaceful assembly in Russia. The decisions are published on the court's website.

On November 7, police officers came to the home of civil activist Anatoly Lileikin because of his post on VKontakte about Vladimir Putin. A report was drawn up against him under the article on insulting the authorities (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). He himself told OVD-Info about this.