On July 31, the Novoalexandrovsky District Court (Stavropol Krai) received the case materials on the New Testament burned on a barbecue grill against 20-year-old Danila Zh., 17-year-old Yuri M., and 21-year-old Dmitry S. The prosecutor's office reported on this . The young men are charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code), the department said in a statement.

The Industrial District Court of Barnaul has softened the measure of restraint for Jehovah's Witnesses Vitaly Manuilov and Valery Klokov: house arrest has been replaced by a ban on certain actions. This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses".

The Fifth Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction overturned the acquittal of Vladivostok resident Alexey Chernyansky, who was prosecuted under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism on the Internet (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) because of a congratulatory picture sent on WhatsApp. OVD-Info found a card indicating the decision on the case on the court's website. The case was sent back to the court of first instance for a new trial.

On July 30, the Nikolaevsky-on-Amur City Court (Khabarovsk Krai) sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Igor Kletkin, Nikolai Kononenko and Nadezhda Korobochko to suspended sentences. This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses". Kletkin and Kononenko were given six years' suspended sentences with a four-year probationary period, while 81-year-old Korobochko was given five years' suspended sentence with a three-year probationary period.

On July 25, the Kineshemsky City Court of the Ivanovo Region requested a sentence for local Jehovah's Witness Andrei Okhapkin: seven years of imprisonment - the prosecution is asking to find him guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the SOVA Research Center. The 62-year-old believer has been persecuted since November 2021.

Lawyer Dmitry Talantov, prosecuted under articles of military “fakes” and inciting hatred, was transferred from a pre-trial detention center to a hospital. This became known from a message from the press service of the court, which was noticed by the publication “7×7”. Today, July 31, a hearing in the case against Talantov was supposed to take place in the Zavyalovsky District Court (Udmurtia), but it was postponed to August 7.

The Bogorodsky City Court (Nizhny Novgorod Region) extended for another six months the compulsory medical measures of Pastafarian Alexey Onoshkin, who is being prosecuted under articles on disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and on calls for terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer Kristina Tyurina.

The magistrate of judicial district No. 2 in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Ulyanovsk sentenced the artist Yegor Zakharov, known as HOLTOV, to a fine of 100 thousand rubles. This was reported by the telegram channel "Simbirsky Shugozhor". The artist was found guilty under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor at the trial requested that he be sentenced to 240 hours of community service.

Contact with three more prisoners has been lost in Russia. The Agency reports that politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has not been allowed a lawyer to visit him in the Omsk prison colony for the second day in a row. Also, the lawyer for American Paul Whelan, who was convicted of espionage, said that she does not know where her client is. In addition, RusNews reported the disappearance of its journalist Maria Ponomarenko because she was not brought to the court hearing on July 26.

On July 4, the Primorsky Regional Court considered the prosecutor's appeal to mitigate the punishment of four Jehovah's Witnesses from Luchegorsk and reduced their suspended sentences by one month each. Representatives of the Jehovah's Witnesses portal told OVD-Info about this. The prosecutor noted that the court of first instance incorrectly applied the aggravating circumstance of “committing a crime as part of an organized group.” Since it is already provided for in the article.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced Ukrainian TV presenter Natalia Moseychuk in absentia to five years in prison for an episode in which she addressed the wives of Russian military personnel. This was reported by Mediazona from the courtroom. The TV presenter was found guilty under the article on incitement of hatred or enmity (paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In Pskov, a local resident was detained in a criminal case on the desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) due to cooking food on the Eternal Flame. This was reported by the local Investigative Committee. According to investigators, on July 28, the man, while intoxicated, was preparing food on the Eternal Flame in the Square of Fallen Fighters. The suspect has been detained.

Crimean Tatar activist Vladlen Abdulkadyrov, sentenced to 12 years in prison, was transferred to IK-21 in the Arkhangelsk region. This was reported on Facebook by his wife Gulzar Abdulkadyrova , as well as the movement " Crimean Solidarity ". The penal colony is located in the village of Iksa in the Plesetsk district. Before that, he was in Yelets prison No. 2 (Lipetsk region). "In July, by a court decision, my husband, Veli Abdulkadyrov, was sent to a prison camp.

The Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court has approved the appointment of compulsory medical measures to local resident Alexei Volsky in the case of military "fakes" (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by his lawyer Kristina Tyurina. In May , the Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced the defendant in the case to PMMKh, and Volsky was sent to a specialized hospital.

The wife of Dmitry Pchelintsev, a defendant in the "Network" case, Nastya, said that she was fired from work one day at the request of the "security service". She wrote about this on Facebook. The woman said that she worked as a sales manager. But in addition to her main tasks at work, she also had to "move" heavy boxes, which is why she once went to the hospital to continue her pregnancy.