At an appeal hearing, the Primorsky Regional Court approved a sentence of eight years in prison for Jehovah's Witness from Vladivostok, Dmitry Barmakin. This is reported by the website “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia". The believer was taken into custody in the courtroom. Before the sentencing, after the previous court decision was overturned, he was under recognizance not to leave the place.

"Good morning, my guilty ones" December 27, Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg. Judge Vladimir Ushakov slowly enters the courtroom. Ushakov is well known to local activists: he imposed many fines under the article on discrediting the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

On February 1, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued rulings on complaints from 45 clients of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” and OVD-Info. The documents are published on the official website of the court. The complaints are contained in the decisions “Ustinov and others against Russia” , “Petrova and others against Russia” and “Pantenkov and others against Russia” .

Anton Zhuchkov and Vladimir Sergeyev, sentenced to long terms in the case of planning to set fire to a prisoner transport vehicle during an anti-war protest, were transferred from Moscow to an unknown destination, the Solidarity Zone project reports . Both were in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 “Matrosskaya Tishina”, Zhuchkov and Sergeyev managed to inform the people with whom they were in correspondence that they would be taken out of there on February 3.

A criminal case was opened against 20-year-old resident of Mordovia Artem Begoyan for high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Angry Chuvashia telegram channel. According to the security forces, the young man established cooperation with the Ukrainian intelligence services via the Internet. Other details of the case are unknown.

Three organizations registered abroad have been recognized as “undesirable” in Russia. Information about this appeared in the corresponding list of the Ministry of Justice. The register included: — “Union for the Return of the Northern Territories”, registered in Japan.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow received a petition for the arrest of the full namesake of the former banker and entrepreneur Alexander Konanykhin. attention to the case card The Avtozak LIVE project drew . A criminal case was opened against the man under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). It is unknown what became the reason for the persecution. Konanykhin has not lived in Russia since the early 2000s.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined local resident Ilya Kazak five thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts.

During the debate in the Zlatoust City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region, the ex-coordinator of the Chelyabinsk “Voice” Natalya Guseva was asked to fine 700 thousand rubles in the case of military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by her lawyer from OVD-Info Oleg Stepanov. The case against Guseva was opened in June 2023, and in August they came to search her house.

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow fined the writer Dmitry Bykov 10 thousand rubles, finding him guilty under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the press service of the city courts. The protocol against Dmitry Bykov was drawn up due to his participation in the video of Novaya Gazeta Europe with the title “About the new album, return to St.

The mother of Chechen activists, Zarema Musaeva, sentenced to five years in a general regime colony in the case of fraud and violence against a police officer, is being transferred from a colony settlement in the city of Argun to another colony. this . reports Team Against Torture It is clarified that Musaeva’s defender Alexander Savin learned about the transfer this morning when he came to the cassation hearing on her verdict. The appeal hearing did not take place.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former adviser on strategic communications in the field of national security and defense of the Office of the President of Ukraine Alexei Arestovich for two months. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts.

A resident of Yakutsk was arrested for three days under the article on organizing an unapproved public event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). This was reported by the telegram channel “Torboznoye Radio”, and “7×7” drew attention . The decision was made by the Yakut City Court on January 31. The reason was a message that the man sent on January 23 to a WhatsApp group.

Jehovah's Witnesses Aram Danielyan, Denis Kuzyanin, Sergei Polosenko and Nikolai Vasilyev, sentenced to seven years in prison in the case of organizing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), were sent to Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 of Samara. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. Before the verdict, Jehovah's Witnesses were prohibited from certain activities. The Samara District Court announced the verdict on January 25.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested the writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) in absentia for two months; he is on the international wanted list. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts of general jurisdiction. The period of arrest is counted from the moment of the actual detention of the writer or from the moment of his transfer to Russian law enforcement agencies in the event of extradition or deportation to the country.