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

December 25, 2012 Nizhny Novgorod The regional court overturned the decision of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod dated October 18, 2012 on the return of case the Antifa-RASH to the prosecutor's office and re-sent the case to the Nizhny Novgorod District Court.

The text of the ruling of the regional court is unknown, therefore, it is not clear at what stage and in what composition of the court the consideration of the case. Recall that the case was returned to the prosecutor's office at the stage sentence - to remove obstacles that prevent it from being considered. According to the defendants' lawyers, the court took into account argumentation of the defense, pointing out that the charge does not contain any indications of specific actions of the defendants, which would indicate their participation in extremist community, there is no evidence not only of their committing extremist actions, but even the preparation of such.

case process local activists of the antifa movement Artyom Bystrov, Pavel Krivonosov, Oleg Gembaruk, Albert Gainutdinov and Dmitry Kolesov began in Nizhny Novgorod in March 2012. They were accused under Part 2 of 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 associated with resistance to a representative authorities), paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 115 and p. "b" part 2 of Art. 116 (accordingly, the intentional infliction of light bodily harm and beatings on motives of hatred or enmity towards a social group), taking into account Part 3. Art. 35 (commission of a crime by an organized group). To all defendants in the case charged with three episodes of clashes with "representatives social groups of skinheads, football fans" , however, the victim in as a result of the clashes, asked the judge to stop the proceedings in this case parts in connection with the reconciliation of the parties. Another witness for the prosecution testified in court about that he testified against the defendants under pressure from the staff of the local ETC. However, the prosecutor demanded 5 years in prison for Krivonosov, for Gembaruka - a fine of 20 thousand rubles and 3 years, for Kolesov - 4 years in prison freedom.

Sources

• Antifa-RASH case returned to court in Nizhny Novgorod // Open news agency. 2012. December 25.