Police may give the right to draw up protocols against NPOs

In the first reading, the bill on folk squads was discovered, which allows the police to draw up protocols against non -profit organizations - “foreign agents”, Kommersant reports . Deputy Dmitry Gudkov accused the authors of the bill, unicorn and Socialist -Revolutionaries, of the fact that they "hid the norm" in order to accept her "quietly".

“As it turned out, the authorities solve a more important task for itself - strengthening control over NGOs,” Gudkov said. “The deputies were sure that they voted for one thing, but accepted (so far in the first reading) is completely different.”

In turn, the authors of the bill claim that we are talking about a technical error. In the text of the bill, the clause introducing the norm on NPOs was formulated as follows: “In paragraph 1 of Part 2 of Article 28.3, the numbers“ 19.33 ”are replaced by numbers” 19.33-19.36 (we are talking about the Code of Administrative Offenses). At the time of preparation of the bill, an article on 19.34 “Foreign agents” has not yet been adopted, and articles 19.35 and 19.36 in the Code of Administrative There is still no.

The head of the Human Rights Association Pavel Chikov is also sure that a technical error "crept into the bill." “The document concerns the legal status of police assistants, this is a bill that does not affect NPOs at all,” he said. Chikov emphasized that according to the law "On the Police", law enforcement agencies are not related to inspections of NGOs.

At the same time, the government criticized the government in its review. According to the Ministry of Justice, "the bill contains a corruption factor" expressed "in the presence of duplicate powers of officials of state authorities." At the same time, the general norm was meant, specific articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses were not mentioned in the recall.

“The State Duma has a jointly with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to continue the police reform, and within its framework it is just being discussed by delivering the police from the functions unusual for it - for example, to leave it only on issues related to public order and safety,” said the deputy chairman of the specialized committee on security and counteracting corruption Ernest Valeev. According to him, the law "will certainly change."

The bill was adopted in the first reading on September 20. For amendments to the second reading, 20 days are allocated.

According to the current legislation, if NPOs carry out the activities of a foreign agent, but at the same time did not enter the appropriate register, the protocols are the Ministry of Justice (part 1 of Article 19.34). If NPOs issues various materials without a mark about a foreign agent, then Roskomnadzor (part 2 of this article) is engaged in this.