Jehovah's Witness Stepan Adamov is suspected of participating in the activities of an extremist organization. On April 1, 2020, it became known that Stepan Adamov from Chekhov, Moscow Region, became a suspect in a criminal case initiated under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). The case was initiated by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region on January 31, 2020.

After the partial decriminalization of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in the Code of Administrative Offenses, a new article appeared - 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). We collect the resolutions issued on it into a single list on a monthly basis. On April 15, 2020, the Dzerzhinsky City Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region fined local resident D.

The court reclassified the accusations to Alexander Orshulevich, Igor Ivanov, Alexander Mamaev and Nikolai Sentsov. The Second Western District Military Court, at the request of the prosecutor's office, replaced the Kaliningrad monarchists from the BARS organization with part 1 of Art. 205.4 of the Criminal Code (organization of a terrorist community) at art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (creation of an extremist community. This was announced on April 1, 2020 by Agora’s lawyer.

Igor Ivashin was sentenced to six years probation under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On April 1, 2020, the Lensky District Court of Yakutia found Jehovah's Witness Igor Ivashin guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1, Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to six years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three and a half years.

We publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in March 2020. Rulemaking March 1 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law amending Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public displaying Nazi symbols). Disposition and sanctions Art.

Due to the increase in the number of administrative cases under Art. 20.3 Administrative Code (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols and symbols of banned organizations) we combine into a single list similar cases every month. On April 27, 2020, it became known that in the Murmansk Region, the Lovozersky District Court fined a prisoner in IK-23, on whose torso a swastika was stuffed.

Tatyana Kulakova is suspected of participating in the activities of an extremist organization (part 2 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code), her husband and son are already under investigation. On March 20, 2020, the investigative department of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Sakhalin Region opened a case under Part 2 of Art.

A new case has been opened in Khakassia against Jehovah's Witnesses. On March 30, 2020, it became known that in Khakassia, the defendants in a new criminal case initiated under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of the activities of an extremist organization), six Jehovah's Witnesses, including two women, became. The materials of the new case were separated from the proceedings on the case of Roman and Valentina Baranovsky from Abakan.

Jehovah's Witnesses from Karpinsk, who received suspended sentences, became defendants in a new case under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code. On March 30, 2020, in Karpinsk, Sverdlovsk Region, searches were carried out in the houses of Venera Dulova, her daughter Daria and Alexander Pryanikov, as well as in one apartment in Volchansk. Pryanikov and his wife were interrogated.