The case of Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists was brought to court

On February 15, 2012, it became known that the case against the Nizhny Novgorod activists of the movement "antifa" sent to court. All of them are accused of Part 2 Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist community), part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism committed by an organized group of persons or related to resistance to a representative of the authorities), paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 115 (intentional infliction of minor bodily harm) and par. "b" part 2 of Art. 116 (beatings motivated by hatred or enmity against a social group).

The prosecutor's office reports four accused. Previously it was reported that charges were brought against five: Artyom Bystrov, Pavel Krivonosov, Oleg Gembaruk, Albert Gainutdinov and Dmitry Kolesov.

The defendants in the case are charged with the creation of a certain "extremist community" "Antifa-RUS" and " attacks on representatives of "skinheads - football fans" and causing bodily harm to the latter and beatings based on ideological hatred and enmity ."

Recall, we consider this persecution of Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists illegal.

Sources

• A criminal case was sent to the court against 3 residents of the city of Nizhny Novgorod and a resident of the Nizhny Novgorod region, accused of creating and participating in an extremist community, as well as hooliganism // Website of the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region. February 15, 2012.