Essentuki resident Nikolai Murnev, accused of preparing to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office, was beaten again, demanding to confirm in court the testimony previously given under torture against his comrade Sergei Dudchenko. Anna Murneva, Nikolai’s wife, told OVD-Info about this.

A criminal case was opened against Crimean contract soldier Denis Narolsky, convicted under the article on desertion during an armed conflict (Part 3 of Article 338 of the Criminal Code), under the article on treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The man’s mother told OVD-Info about this. In March, the Crimean Garrison Military Court sentenced Narolsky: nine years in a maximum security colony. The verdict was confirmed in June.

A defendant in the Left Resistance case, Alena Krylova, who was previously detained in Kyrgyzstan, was sentenced in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow - two years in a general regime colony and six months of restriction of freedom after serving her sentence. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts. Krylova was found guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Sovetsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod fined the head of the "Team Against Torture" Sergei Babinets one hundred thousand rubles. He was charged with failure to submit a "foreign agent" report (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) on the organization's activities for 2022; however, the "Team" was only added to the register of "foreign agents" this summer. The human rights activist wrote about the fine on his Telegram channel.

Anastasia Gordienko, a 70-year-old resident of the Odessa district of the Omsk region, is suspected of repeatedly discrediting the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to anti-war posts on social networks. On September 20, her house was searched and her phones were seized. Gordienko herself told OVD-Info about this. The woman does not know exactly what she is charged with in the criminal case, since she has not yet familiarized herself with the materials.

The Fourth Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction in Nizhny Novgorod approved the decision of the lower court to liquidate the oldest human rights organization in Mari El, “Man and the Law.” In a press release on the website, representatives of the organization announced the cessation of work. The Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit demanding the liquidation of “Man and Law” in January.

A 52-year-old resident of Tatarstan was sentenced to 10 months of correctional labor with the recovery of 15 percent of wages in the case of public desecration of the symbol of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee for Tatarstan. The initiation of the case became known in August, and it went to court in November.

On December 18, the 1st Eastern District Military Court fined Lenard Valeev, a 60-year-old resident of the Kemerovo region, for 360 thousand rubles in installments over five years. He was found guilty of calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the channel “Kuzbass without extremism” associated with the security forces. The case against Valeev became known on April 8.

On December 18, the Ninth Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction in Vladivostok overturned the ruling of the Primorsky Regional Court, which declared the sentence of eight years in prison to Dmitry Barmakin illegal. The case was sent for a new appeal hearing in a different court composition. about this writes The portal “Jehovah's Witnesses” . Legal situation in Russia".

The Amur Regional Court commuted the sentence of Vladimir Balabkin, a 71-year-old Jehovah's Witness from the Amur Region, who suffered from cancer. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers in Russia. The pensioner spent 96 days in pre-trial detention.

The editor-in-chief of Pskov Province Denis Kamalyagin has been put on the wanted list. Mediazona drew attention to this information in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database.

On December 18, the Novosibirsk District Court sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Marina Chaplykina and Valery Maletskov to actual prison terms: four years and six years, respectively. They were taken into custody in the courtroom. This is reported by a website covering the persecution of believers in Russia.

Co-founder of Wikimedia RU Stas Kozlovsky announced the closure of the project due to pressure. this He reported on the Wikimedia RU forum. According to Kozlovsky, by order of the vice-rector of Moscow State University, he was urgently called back from a business trip to Moscow.

The Dimitrovsky District Court of Kostroma sentenced elderly Jehovah's Witness Valentina Samus to six years of suspended imprisonment with a five-year probationary period. Her son Alexey reported this to OVD-Info. Samus was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). She was charged with keeping Jehovah's Witnesses literature at home and distributing it.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow received reports against Falun Dafa practitioners Zoya Orlenko, Kirill Belan, Alexander Kozlov and six other people. This was reported to OVD-Info by one of the advocates of the practice. They are charged with participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). Meetings to review all protocols are scheduled for December 25, five minutes were allocated for each of them.