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In Moscow, an inconsistent picket was held for the release of the lotkal
In Moscow, at the Metro station, Tsvetoyny Boulevard, a disagreed mass picket was held for the release of the student of the Russian Economic University named after Plekhanov Alexandra Lotkova, who recently was given three years in the colony for injuring two men in the subway. According to the correspondent of the "faces", one picketer also stood at the Building of the Tver District Court, where Lotkov was convicted, but soon returned to the station, since there were no passers -by at the building.
In total, about 50 people participated in the action, although over 650, more journalists came to the pickets on the Vkontakte network . There were more journalists than protesters. By the beginning of the action, there were three police buses at the metro. Several people were simultaneously deployed at once at the entrance to the station at once, and pickets at the courts of courts are prohibited by law. Nevertheless, the action ended without detention. Having defended about an hour, the picketers gave out an interview demanding to free Lotkov and allow the wearing of short -barreled firearms, and then dispersed.
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The verdict of Lotkova was issued on March 20 by Judge Alexei Krivoruchko, a person involved in the Magnitsky list. He found the girl guilty under Part 1 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (intentional infliction of serious harm to health). On May 26, 2012, Lotkova and her friends came into conflict with a drunken company at the Metro Boulevard metro station, which tried to take a knife hanging on the belt of one of the friends of the student, Dmitry Belozerov. A fight began, during which another Comrade Lotkova, Dmitry Hvorostov, received two stab wounds. The police, who were present at the fight, according to the girl’s friends, were inactive. Then the student made a warning shot into the air from her traumatic pistol "Streamer". When this did not work, she shot three times at the attackers. One of them, Ibrahim Kurbanov, received a slight wound in the stomach; Another - Ivan Belousov - spent several weeks at the Sklifosovsky Institute with the wounds of the right lung and a scapula.
Krivoruchko noted that he did not trust the testimony of comrades Lotkova, since they "interested parties and are on friendly relations with the defendant." He also expressed distrust of the testimony of passenger witnesses and stated that in reality there were not four, but three, that is, the girl did not make a warning shot. He declared the version of self -defense "far -fetched" and "insolvent", emphasizing that "there was no threat to life."
“The judge actually rewritten the text of the indictment,” said the student of the student Yaroslav Pakulin. Another defender, Alexei Parshin, said that the verdict is contrary to the order of the Supreme Court regarding the affairs of self -defense.
On March 21, the Presidential Council for Human Rights took control of Lotkova. According to the head of the HRC Mikhail Fedotov, a number of members of the Council, including the chairman of the National Anti -Corruption Committee, Kirill Kabanov, have already begun to study the case materials. “Not everything is unambiguous there, as members of the Council believe. If everything were definitely, then the court’s decision would be simple and clear and would not raise any issues,” Fedotov noted.