A defendant in the Mayakovsky case, Artem Kamardin, who is under arrest, spoke about deteriorating health and inadequate conditions of detention in pre-trial detention center No. 2 Butyrka. Human rights activist Vladimir Vasilenko, who visited the poet in the pre-trial detention center, wrote about this in his Telegram channel. “Artem Yuryevich told me about the unbearable conditions of detention,” writes Vasilenko.

The court has declared Roman Paklin, a defendant in the "Tyumen case" who is undergoing treatment at the Lebedev Psychiatric Hospital in the Tyumen Region, incompetent. This was reported by the "Tyumenskoye Delo" Telegram channel. In the hospital, Paklin was diagnosed with a schizophrenia-like disorder, which became the reason for the court's decision. The defendant's mother became his legal representative.

The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Penza arrested for five days Ilya Selivanov, a deputy of the Penza City Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who tried to prevent the demolition of a public transport stop and a shopping pavilion on Lunacharsky Street. Sergei Padalkin, coordinator of the “Left Front” in the Volga Federal District, reports this on his Telegram channel.

Jehovah's Witnesses from Kurilsk (Sakhalin region) Olga Kalinnikova and Larisa Potapova were charged with involvement in extremist activities (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code); Previously, they were prosecuted under the article on participation in such activities (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses website.

At the debate in the Pozharsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory on April 11, the prosecution requested six and a half years in a general regime colony for Jehovah's Witness Anton Virich in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Jehovah's Witnesses website. The prosecutor also requested a one-year restriction of freedom for the man.

At the first meeting, the Vologda City Court essentially softened the preventive measure against local lawyer and activist Evgeny Molotov in the case of financing extremism (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). SOTAvision reports this. Molotov was given house arrest. The activist was sent into custody on January 24, the day after the search of his home. On March 29, the preventive measure was extended.

The Commission on Minors' Affairs (KDN) in Nizhny Novgorod fined the mother of a 15-year-old schoolgirl 500 rubles, who wrote a group in a telegram about the terrorist attack in Moscow's Crocus City Hall. NewsNN.ru writes about this with reference to representatives of the commission. The woman was charged with failure to fulfill parental responsibilities (Part 1 of Article 5.35 of the Administrative Code).

A criminal case was opened against trash streamer from Volgograd Pavel Prokudin for inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because he called the Russian military “cannon fodder.” ASTRA reports this. A denunciation of one of his broadcasts was written by Ekaterina Mizulina.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office approved the indictment in the case of justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against the authors of the play “Finist the Clear Falcon” Evgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk. The press service of the department reports this. The case materials were sent to the 2nd Western District Military Court for consideration on the merits.

A pediatrician from Moscow, Nadezhda Buyanova, was charged in the final version in the case of military “fakes” and was charged with the motive of national hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Her lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev reported this in his stories. In addition, a new prosecution witness F. Nikolaev, who was not previously announced, appeared in the case.

On April 11, the Altai Regional Court approved the verdict of Barnaul resident Alexey Moiseev in a criminal case for participation in the activities of the “undesirable” church “New Generation” (Part 1 of Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). OVD-Info was told about this in court.

The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined local resident Alexei Nazarov 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. The protocol was drawn up due to Meduza’s repost on VKontakte dated March 8, 2023.

Employees of the Investigative Committee came to the apartment of journalist and author of Fontanka Ksenia Klochkova on Friday morning, the publication reported . Klochkova is in the status of a witness. According to preliminary data, investigative actions are being conducted as part of the criminal case of journalist Andrei Zakharov, who collaborated with Fontanka until 2016.

On the morning of April 18, security forces came, under the pretext of inspecting the premises, to the apartment of a married couple from Moscow. Force was used against the couple, including the man being tortured with a stun gun. The man’s lawyer, Natalia Tikhonova, reported this to OVD-Info. Law enforcement officers put the couple face down on the floor and handcuffed them. They were also forced to "say different things" on video.

Activist Alena Smyshlyaeva, who emigrated from the city of Rezh, Sverdlovsk Region, was put on the wanted list, she reported on her Instagram. On March 26, a criminal case was opened against Smyshlyaeva for repeated discrediting of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to anti-war publications on VKontakte. Smyshlyaeva left Russia back in May 2022.