Lawyer Vasily Dubkov, who defended Alexei Navalny, was detained in Moscow. This is reported by SOTA. According to the publication, Dubkov is charged with an administrative offense - violation of public order (probably, we are talking about Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). He was taken to the Shcherbinka police station. Previously, Dubkov accompanied the politician’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya in Salekhard when she demanded that FSIN employees give her her son’s body.

Former Russian State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov was added to the list of “terrorists and extremists” with an asterisk, meaning that a case has been opened against him under one of the terrorist articles. There is no information yet about the reason for Gudkov’s persecution.

The XZ foundation (“XZ gGmbH”), an organization specializing in combating Russian propaganda, was declared “undesirable.” State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi wrote about this in his telegram, and he had earlier contacted the Prosecutor General’s Office with a denunciation. The Prosecutor General's Office, as stated in the department's letter to the deputy, made the decision on February 14.

Orlov (b. 1953) is one of the most famous human rights activists in Russia. He dedicated his life to documenting human rights violations and helping victims of abuses. His “crime” boils down to protesting the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine and the escalation of repression within Russia. The Orlov trial is a mockery of justice and a blow to the fundamental right to free expression. Orlov, who was taken into custody in the courtroom, will challenge the unfair verdict.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Bryansk Region completed the investigation into the case of a 52-year-old local resident, who is accused of involvement in the “Citizens of the USSR” movement; The case materials have been sent to court. The corresponding press release was published on the department's website. The resident is accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

The trial has been resumed in the case of the Telegram channel "Chto-Delat!" A listener from the courtroom of the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow told OVD-Info about this. There are eleven defendants in the case: Dmitry Chebanov, Maria Platonova, Igor Nagibin, Vyacheslav Abramov, Ildar Sadriev, Nikita Kreshchuk, Alexey Kurlov, Igor Kuznetsov, Dmitry Lamanov, Alexey Yanochkin and Zhanna Chernova.

Jehovah's Witnesses from Vladivostok, Yuri Byche and Sergei Novoselov, were released from the pre-trial detention center on February 22 under a ban on certain actions; Kirill Chekolaev's sentence was extended for three months. This is reported by the website “Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia".

On February 22, security forces conducted an “inspection” in the home museum of the Crimean Tatar Ilver Ametov. this . reports Crimean Solidarity Police and plainclothes officers conducted a five-hour “examination” of Ametov’s collection of antique weapons. They seized several iron objects from the man for examination. The Crimean Tatar himself said that he had in his collection empty “limonki” (anti-personnel hand grenade) and several cartridges.

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent 18-year-old local resident Daria Kozyreva to a pre-trial detention center until April 25, who became a suspect in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by SOTA. Kozyreva’s interests are represented by lawyer from OVD-Info Rafail Polyakov. The meeting was held behind closed doors under the pretext that there were “state secrets” in the case.

During the debate in the Vyborgsky District Court of St. Petersburg, a representative of the prosecutor’s office requested nine years in prison for the exiled activist Boris Romanov, who is accused of spreading “fake news” about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) . This was reported by the MR7 portal. The activist became a defendant in a criminal case in May 2022.

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow ordered the arrest in absentia of politician Dmitry Gudkov in the case of military “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the co-chairman of Memorial Oleg Orlov to two and a half years in the case of repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code); he was taken into custody in the courtroom. This was reported by the Memorial Center for Human Rights. “In fact, we are being punished for allowing ourselves to criticize the authorities. In today's Russia this is absolutely prohibited.

A resident of Norilsk was arrested for two months in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of comments in a telegram. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the FSB. “The man posted comments in the public channel of the Telegram messenger containing public justification for the ideology of violence and discrediting the activities of members of the SVO,” the department reports.

Journalist of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company of the Jewish Autonomous Region Sergei Kornilevsky was sent to pre-trial detention center-1 in Birobidzhan because of a post on Facebook. His friends told OVD-Info about this. Kornilevsky was allegedly detained on February 15: he called a friend and said that they had come for him because of the publication of a post on Facebook in 2022 on the topic of mobilization.

The Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny sentenced Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel to three and a half years in prison because of a video of the burning of the Koran. this SOTAvision reports with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom. Previously, the prosecutor asked to assign the same sentence to 19-year-old Zhuravel.