The Butyrsky District Court of Moscow received a petition for the seizure of property of the chief editor of the Mediazone Sergey Smirnov. The publication itself drew attention to the card card on the court website. The materials were registered in court on March 10. The date of the meeting has not yet been scheduled. The card states that the petition is related to the criminal case of evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (part 2 of article 330.1 of the Criminal Code).

The author of the musical project “Dorevoltsiynaya Council”, the poet Vyacheslav Malakhov, convicted in the case of re -discrediting the army (part 1 of article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), was delivered to a correctional colony No. 6 in Novomoskovsk. This was reported by the telegram channel of his support group. The channel published the response of the head of the FSIN department in the Tula region Pavel Lomakin, which says that Malakhov was serving a sentence in IK-6.

In the Leningrad Region, the security forces detained a 52-year-old resident of Gatchina in the case of justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), 78.ru and “outpost northwest” reported. The publications published a video of the detention of the suspect and his conversation with the security forces. “I admit my guilt that terrorism cannot be justified. It was on feelings, I was wrong, ”the man says on camera.

Police in Nizhny Novgorod detained local activists Lyudmila Kalinchev, Pavel Miloslavsky and Ilya of Myaskovsky due to laying flowers to the place of self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina. This was reported by the telegram channel "NPKK_info". At the moment, all the detainees have already been released without protocols. They were delivered to the police department No. 5. Kalinchev was already detained in 2023 and 2024 , when she brought flowers to the Slavina memorial.

The Soviet District Court of Novosibirsk sentenced three follows to the occult religious doctrine of Alla-Ayat, which was recognized as an extremist organization. This was reported by the research center "Owl".

The prosecutor at the debate in the Konakovsky City Court of the Tver region on February 6 demanded the sentence of five Jehovah's witnesses to a long time in the colony. This was reported by the portal "Jehovah's Witnesses. Legal situation in Russia.

In Moscow, the court fined the designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev under the administrative article on the public desecration of religious symbols (part 2 of article 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), RIA Novosti reports with reference to the case file. According to the card of the case, the decision was issued on March 7 by the peace judge of the judicial section No. 301 in Izmailovo. The court did not specify the agency what kind of fine was appointed Lebedev.

The Volzhsky City Court of the Volgograd region refused the parole (UDO) to the Calmyk activist and ex-employee of the city hall Elista Altan Schoirova, sentenced to five years of the colony due to anti-war posts. This was reported by the telegram channel "Prison Lawyer". “In the absence of legislative prohibitions, actually the Uro mechanism is inaccessible to persons convicted of fakes,” the authors of the prison lawyer write. The court reviewed the request of the UDO within four meetings.

The appeal military court in Vlasikha (Moscow Region) approved the verdict of the director Anastasia Berezhinskaya: eight years of the colony in the case of posts and comments about the war and Putin. This is reported by the lawyer from the OVD-Info Evgeny Grigoryev. In November 2024, Berezhinskaya found guilty under three articles of the Criminal Code.

On February 24, the Central District District District Court of Yekaterinburg received a case under several terrorist articles against a local resident Pavel Svezhentsev, detained due to anti-war statements. This was reported by the publication "7 × 7".

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow in absentia arrested political scientist Sergei Medvedev under an article on fakes, widespread by the motive for political enmity. Attention to this was drawn by the Mediazon. The court made this decision back in mid -February, notes the Mediazone. Details of the case are unknown. Sergey Medvedev - political scientist, journalist, candidate of historical sciences.

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The City Hall of Krasnoyarsk refused to coordinate a rally against the law on the euthanas of homeless animals. This was reported by the local publication "Prospekt Mira". The public movement "Dogspas" planned to hold the action on March 15 from 13 to 14 hours in the Square named after Yudin, at the entrance to the dog venue. The organizers suggested that about 200 people would come to the event.

The Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur sentenced the supporters of Svetlana Lada-Rus Natalya Ignatieva and Marina Tokarev to five and a half and two and a half years of the colony, respectively. It is reported "exposed." Ignatieva is charged with an article on involving an extremist organization and participation in it (part 1.1 and part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), Tokareva - an article on participation in such activities (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Input to The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the impact of disinformation on the enjoyment and realisation of human rights submitted by OVD-Info February 2025 Introduction OVD-Info is an independent human rights project aimed at monitoring cases of political persecution in Russia and providing legal assistance to victims of such persecution. After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, OVD-Info began helping people who had been prosecuted for their anti-war statements.