The appeal in the case of Victoria Verkhoturova was dismissed. On May 12, 2022, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court approved verdict handed down on November 29, 2021 by the Prioksky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod to 45-year-old Jehovah's Witness Victoria Verkhoturova under Part 2 of Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organization). She was recognized guilty and sentenced to four years of probation.

We we publish an overview of the main and most significant events in the field of misuse of anti-extremist legislation in Russia in April 2022. Rulemaking April 16 was signed a law establishing administrative responsibility for identifying "goals, decisions and actions" of the leadership of the USSR and Nazi Germany, and also for "denying the decisive role of the Soviet people" in its defeat. IN The Code of Administrative Offenses (CAO) introduced a new art. 13.48.

On May 11, 2022 it became known about appeal of the St. Petersburg diocese to the Committee of Property Relations with asking her to donate five buildings next to Smolensk cemetery. We are talking about buildings on Kamskaya street, located at the addresses: letter B of house No. 16, letter V of house No. 18, letter G of house No. 20, letter D of house No. 22 and letter E of house No. 24. In a statement signed by Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St.

A verdict has been passed in the case of Kirill Evstigneev. May 12, 2022 Leninsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sentenced 44-year-old Jehovah's Witness Kirill Evstigneeva to three years of imprisonment conditionally under Part 1 of Art. 282.3 of the Criminal Code (providing financial services, knowingly intended to support the activities of extremist organizations).

The case of Alexander Karnaukhov was discontinued. On May 13, 2022, the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Court stopped, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the criminal prosecution of Alexander Karnaukhov, who was accused under Part 3 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (distribution of information about the days of military glory of Russia expressing obvious disrespect for society).

March 4, 2022 Orenburg The regional court, following a suit filed by the regional prosecutor's office, recognized a Muslim organization as a terrorist religious group of the village of Kushkul (“Kushkul Jamaat”). Her activities on territory of Russia is prohibited. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, the group has been operating in the region since 2014 and has been recruiting for ISIS.

On May 12, 2022, it became known that Dzhankoy World Court under Part 4 of Art. 5.26 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (implementation of missionary activities in violation of the requirements of the legislation on freedom of conscience, freedom of religion and religious associations) fined the imam Emir Medzhitov for 20 thousand rubles.

A student from Smolensk received a year and a half of probation for xenophobic publications on the Internet. On May 13, 2022, the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Smolensk Region announced that a sentence was passed under Part 2 Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities).

According to the investigative committee, a resident of the city of Ivanovo published a record in one of the messengers. In May 2022, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Ivanovo Region initiated a criminal case under paragraph "c" of Part 2 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism) against a 44-year-old resident of the city of Ivanovo.

May 12, 2022 year it became known that back in April, the Tagilstroevsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Tagila fined the imam of the Mahalya mosque Fanis Galeev (in some sources - Galiyev) Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (distribution of extremist materials) . Conducted The prosecutor's office found that he had 23 books included in the Federal list of extremist materials.

A resident of the Chelyabinsk region is accused of publishing messages on the Internet denying the Holocaust. In May 2022, a criminal case was initiated in the Chelyabinsk region under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (rehabilitation of Nazism) against a 27-year-old local resident. According to investigators, he posted "information aimed at Holocaust denial" in one of the communities on the Internet.

Dzhabrail Zulaev was released from criminal liability. On May 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of Ingushetia terminated the criminal prosecution of Dzhabrail Zulaev, who was charged under Part 1 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (denial of the facts established by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, as well as dissemination of deliberately false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War).

The reason for the persecution was the publication of "insulting for the Orthodox believer" images and statements on the social network. 13 May 2022 Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol reported that a 50-year-old resident of Dzhankoy had been charged under Part 1 of Art. 148 UK (public insult to the religious feelings of believers).