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- On 20 May in Kemerovo, a major city in Siberia, widespread searches and interrogations were carried out among Jehovah’s Witnesses. Security forces detained 27-year-old Kirill Tarasov and sent him to a pre-trial detention centre. Tarasov is suspected of organising the activities of an extremist organisation (Part 1, Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code); a case was opened on 14 May.
- 65-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Servet Gaziev was taken to the hospital at correctional colony No. 5 in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with high blood pressure. He is currently receiving treatment. According to his sister, his condition has slightly improved. Gaziev is one of those convicted in the 'second Simferopol' Hizb ut-Tahrir group case; in January 2023, he was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Since his arrest in 2019, Gaziev has repeatedly reported health issues.
- The Tagilstroyevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil, an industrial city in the Urals, granted early release to Vilyur Karachurin, convicted in the ‘Baymak case.’ Karachurin was sentenced to five years in a penal colony for participating in mass unrest and for using violence against security officers after events in Baymak in January 2024.
- In Krasnoyarsk Krai, police detained Yulia Molchanova, a resident of Sharypovsky District who tried to obtain approval for a protest against high utility tariffs. She was charged over a VKontakte post announcing the event. Molchanova was held at the police station for almost four hours. Police also spoke with her acquaintance who had helped prepare a petition to the local administration.
- The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok, a port city in the Russian Far East, fined Muslim Oybek Usmonov 36,000 roubles (US$400) and ordered his deportation for praying on a children’s playground. Usmonov was found guilty of violating regulations on missionary activity.
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