Crimean Tatar Ruslan Zeytullaev, sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case, was released from a punishment cell in a maximum security colony in Bashkortostan. Crimean Solidarity reports this. Zeytullaev spent about 40 days in a punishment cell. He was returned to the colony camp on March 31. Ruslan Zeytullayev was arrested in January 2015.

An entrepreneur from Tyumen, Vitaly Samoilik, was placed under house arrest on charges of transferring funds to the Anti-Corruption Foundation after the organization was declared extremist. URA.RU reports this with reference to its sources. A case was opened against Samoilik for financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). It is not reported when exactly the preventive measure was chosen for him. The man was added to the “list of extremists” on March 18.

On March 28, the Kirov Regional Court received a case under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Vitaly Mamashev. The SOVA research center draws attention to the card on the court’s website.

On March 28, the Kirov Regional Court received a case under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against Vitaly Mamashev. The SOVA research center draws attention to the card on the court’s website.

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow received a request for the arrest in absentia of the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, Roman Klichuk. Mediazona found the corresponding card on the court’s website. A petition from the Investigative Committee for arrest in absentia was registered in court on April 1, but has not yet been considered. Klichuk is accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian military (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow received a request for the arrest in absentia of the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi, Roman Klichuk. Mediazona found the corresponding card on the court’s website. A petition from the Investigative Committee for arrest in absentia was registered in court on April 1, but has not yet been considered. Klichuk is accused of distributing “fakes” about the Russian military (clause “e”, part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

66-year-old Crimean Tatar Zekirya Muratov, convicted in the case of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, was transferred to maximum security colony No. 5 in Nizhny Novgorod, Crimean Solidarity reports . Before that, he served time in prison in Balashov, Saratov region. In February 2022, Muratov was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison; the decision was later confirmed on appeal.

Former Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, convicted under an article on military “fakes,” was registered in the colony as suicidal. This was reported in the Telegram channel of Gorinov’s support group.

Pussy Riot member and former Mediazona publisher Petr Verzilov has been asked to re-sentence himself in absentia in the military "fakes" case - eight and a half years in prison and a four-year ban on posting materials on the Internet.

Four of the five convicted in the second Simferopol Hizb ut-Tahrir case were transferred to Russian prisons. Osman Arifmemetov and Rustem Sheykhaliev are allegedly being taken to the Krasnoyarsk region, Ruslan Suleymanov to the Chelyabinsk region. Enver Ametov was previously sent to Lipetsk. Crimean Solidarity learned about this from Arifmemetov’s letter to his mother.

Due to daily trips to court to familiarize himself with the materials of the first instance hearings and the inability to treat a cold, human rights activist Oleg Orlov’s hearing began to deteriorate, reports the Memorial Center for Human Rights. “Orlov caught a cold due to the conditions in which he finds himself during his travels and in court,” writes Memorial.

Actionist Pavel Krisevich was transported from pre-trial detention center No. 2 Butyrka in an unknown direction. This is reported by his support group. On March 11, the Moscow City Court approved Krisevich’s sentence of five years in prison. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a performance that the actionist held in June 2021: then he shot himself in the head with a blank cartridge on Red Square to draw attention to the problems of political prisoners in Russia.

On March 29, the Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow registered the materials of the criminal case of economist and former vice-rector of the Higher School of Economics Konstantin Sonin on the dissemination of military “fakes” based on political hatred (Part 2, paragraph “d”, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Information about this was published in the database of the capital’s courts, and Mediazona drew attention to it.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has re-put the activist Olga Misik on the wanted list. She wrote about this on her Twitter. In August 2023, a case was opened against the girl under the article on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a tweet “justifying the terrorist act of D. E. Trepova against V. Tatarsky.” The persecution became known on October 26, when security forces came to search the activist’s father.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced activist Zakhar Zaripov to five years in a general regime colony in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of a post on LiveJournal. His wife told OVD-Info about this. Zaripov was detained on January 25, 2023 at his workplace in a correctional colony, where he taught mathematics to convicts. During a search of his house, security forces seized the man's computer and phone.