Three criminal cases were opened against 46-year-old resident of the Urupsky district of Karachay-Cherkessia, Dmitry Ch., on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of collages with the St. George ribbon and swastika in Odnoklassniki, ASTRA reports . According to the Telegram channel, one of the pictures is accompanied by the text “St.

Kuban resident Leon Darsht, accused of several charges, including the case of arson of the banner “We do not abandon our own,” is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by the human rights project “Solidarity Zone”. Darsht's criminal case is already being considered by the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. “Zone of Solidarity” writes that the 20-year-old young man faces 10 to 30 years in prison.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded compensation from three and a half to six thousand euros based on complaints from OVD-Info and Memorial about the actions of the police and the court against detained participants in rallies and other actions. Information about this is published on the court's website. The relevant decisions are contained in the decisions “ Antropov and others v. Russia ”, “ Berezutsky and others v. Russia ”, “ Glushchenko and others v.

On April 11, the Central District Court of Togliatti fined local resident Olga Patrina five thousand rubles under the article on participation in the activities of an “undesirable organization” (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a link to a video with a song about Jesus. This was reported by Idel. Realities,” the ruling was published on the court’s website.

The Pozharsky District Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced Jehovah's Witness Anton Virich to six years and two months in a general regime colony. The Jehovah's Witnesses portal writes about this. The believer was found guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). During the debate on April 11, the prosecutor asked that he be sentenced to six and a half years in prison.

In St. Petersburg, a second criminal case was opened against 46-year-old hairdresser Anna Alexandrova for “fakes” about the army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Fontanka reports this. The woman is accused of posting “at least four” publications containing “fake news” about the Russian army on VKontakte under the nickname “Irochka Sergeeva”, and also spoke on social networks under different nicknames on how to avoid mobilization.

​​​​​​The Investigative Committee reported on the completion of the investigation into the case against a 55-year-old Jehovah's Witness from Cherkessk. The case was sent to court. The believer is charged with participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and inducement to such activities (Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Kazan activist Zulfiya Sitdikova, who became a defendant in a criminal case because of the “9th Way” poster and the inscription “No to war” at the Eternal Flame, was denied hospitalization at an anti-tuberculosis dispensary; her defenders attribute the refusal to pressure from the prosecutor's office on the management of the institution. The corresponding press release was published in the telegram channel of the regional branch of the Yabloko party.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced the Chita anarchists - 19-year-old Alexander Snezhkov and 16-year-old Lyubov Lizunova - to six and three and a half years in prison, respectively, and Vladislav Vishnevsky, who was involved in the same case with them, to one and a half years of forced labor. This was reported by Network Freedom.

On April 24, the Volzhsky District Court of Saratov placed 50-year-old Jehovah's Witness Sergei Bagiyan under house arrest. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers. It is unknown what exactly the believer is charged with. Bagiyan was detained on April 21 in Moscow as a suspect in a case of “extremism.” After this, the man was taken to Saratov, where he spent three days in a temporary detention facility.

The Barnaul mayor's office refused to allow Communist Party activists to hold a May Day demonstration. State Duma deputy and head of the regional branch of the party Maria Prusakova reported this in her Telegram channel. “It’s becoming more and more difficult to come up with reasons, so this time the authorities’ argument boils down to the lack of indication in the application that the demonstrators have posters,” Prusakova noted.

The Veliky Ustyug District Court of the Vologda Region sentenced the head of the regional branch of the Yabloko party, Nikolai Egorov, to a fine of 200 thousand rubles under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) due to publications on the social network. This was reported by OVD-Info lawyer Sergei Tikhonov, who represents Egorov’s interests. On April 24, the prosecutor requested a fine of 300 thousand rubles for the politician.