On January 10, the Shipunovsky District Court of the Altai Territory received a criminal case against RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko for causing non-hazardous harm to an employee of a prison (Part 2 of Article 321 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info drew attention to this. A new criminal case against Ponomarenko became known in early November 2023. She was charged in December. The girl was charged with assaulting two colony employees, including the head of the security department.

Police in Khabarovsk drew up a report under the article on participation in an uncoordinated public action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) against local activist Natalya Golobokova, speaking in support of Sergei Furgal. This was reported by SOTAvision. As another activist Lyudmila Frolova told reporters, on January 18, police came to several of Furgal’s supporters at once. In this case, the protocol was drawn up only for Golobokova.

On January 18, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued rulings on issues of freedom of assembly in Russia. The documents were published on the official website. The court considered complaints from 114 clients of the Memorial Human Rights Center and OVD-Info.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow opened a criminal case for inciting hatred or enmity within an organized group of persons (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) against the head of the interregional Uzbek community “Vatandosh” Usman Baratov. this . reports The press service of the department Baratov was taken to the department of the capital's Investigative Committee to carry out investigative actions with him.

The prosecutor's office of the Avtozavodsky district of Togliatti returned for further investigation the criminal case against Dmitry Vashchenko for repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) on formal grounds. The defendant himself told OVD-Info about this. Based on the results of studying the case materials, the department considered that the decision to terminate the preliminary investigation was premature due to the incompleteness of the investigation.

Jehovah's Witness from the Tomsk region, Evgeniy Korotun, received an unjustified penalty immediately after he expressed a desire to apply for parole in September 2023. This was reported by the portal “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". The man asked the court to replace the remaining sentence with forced labor, but he was refused. Security forces conducted searches in the house of Korotun and his fellow believers in the summer of 2020.

On November 7, 2023, the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar imposed a fine of five thousand rubles on four followers of the Chinese spiritual practice Falun Gong. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory. Among those fined: Sergey Panov, Larisa Velchenko, Zoya Volkova and Zoya Luneva. They were found guilty under the administrative article of participation in the activities of an undesirable organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code).

Igor Girkin, a participant in military clashes in eastern Ukraine as part of pro-Russian groups, has been asked to serve four years and eleven months in prison in a case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by "Beware, News". This happened during a hearing at the Moscow City Court.

Arsen Abkhairov, a defendant in the Krasnovardeysk Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was transferred from a prison in Yeniseisk (Krasnoyarsk Krai) to a maximum security prison in the Republic of Buryatia. This was reported by Krymskaya Solidarnost, citing his wife Aziza Abkhairova. Her husband informed her about the transfer by phone, but he did not specify which colony he was being sent to.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against the wife of the defendant in the case of the “fifth Bakhchisaray group” of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Aisha Yakubova, because of a photograph of her husband Eldar taken in court. Crimean Solidarity reports this. The protocol against Yakubova was drawn up on January 17 under the article on failure to comply with the bailiff’s demands (Part 2 of Article 17.3 of the Administrative Code).

An administrative protocol was drawn up against the wife of the defendant in the case of the “fifth Bakhchisaray group” of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Aisha Yakubova, because of a photograph of her husband Eldar taken in court. Crimean Solidarity reports this. The protocol against Yakubova was drawn up on January 17 under the article on failure to comply with the bailiff’s demands (Part 2 of Article 17.3 of the Administrative Code).

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced medical brother Maxim Asriyan to eight years in prison in the case of the failed arson of a military registration and enlistment office (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 3 of Article 30) and high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The verdict is reported by SOTAvision, the case file is available on the court website.

The Central District Military Court received a criminal case on public calls for terrorism and justification of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against anarchist Azat Miftakhov. Information about this was published on the court’s website, Mediazona noted . The case will be considered at an off-site hearing in Kirov. In this city, Miftakhov is in a pre-trial detention center, where he was sent in September 2023.

Judicial district No. 42 in St. Petersburg dismissed the case under the article on violation of coronavirus restrictions (Article 8.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of St. Petersburg) against Vitaly Ioffe. His defender Olesya Vasilchenko spoke about this. A report was drawn up against the man because of a picket in support of Olga Smirnova, convicted in the “anti-war case,” which took place on September 29, 2023.

A court in Bashkortostan arrested two students of the Ufa Fuel and Energy College Vilnur and Gaziz for 15 days. RusNews reports this. It is not specified what article they were charged with. The young people were detained today: about 15 security officers came to the college and began checking the students’ phones. Eyewitnesses connect the incident with the public gathering that took place the day before in support of the defender of the Kushtau Shikhan, Fail Alsynov.