Two plus three

The notorious judge Elena Stashina , who presided over the hearings in the Tverskoy court, sentenced Solidarity activist Stanislav Pozdnyakov, accused of assaulting a police officer, to two years probation with three years of probation.

The attack that Pozdnyakov was charged with allegedly took place on April 1, 2012 at the Tverskoy police station, where he was taken after being detained on Manezhnaya Square. Eyewitnesses reported that the police that day demonstrated incompetence (they could not properly fill out arrest reports) and behaved aggressively. Pozdnyakov is accused of slapping one of the police officers. As ovdinfo.org reports with reference to eyewitnesses, an employee of the 2nd operational regiment Ovchinnikov himself slapped Pozdnyakov, and when he said that he wanted to write a statement about this, he threatened to initiate a case under the article on the use of violence against a representative of the authorities (this, unfortunately , a fairly common practice). This happened, according to Pozdnyakov himself and his comrades, after the legal period of detention had expired, while the police claim that Pozdnyakov hit a government official before the expiration of these very three hours. Pozdnyakov was then sent for a medical examination and was denied the presence of a lawyer. Pozdnyakov was not given the results of the examination. The indictment stated, in particular, that participants in the Solidarity movement are pursuing the goals of overthrowing the current government. There is no protocol on delivery, protocols on administrative detention and offense in the case.