The sentence to Sergey Cherepovsky

On November 28 at 14:30 in the Central Court of Tver the final meeting in the case of Sergei Cherepovsky will begin. Judge Elena Mordvinkina must bear the Politzeku-Drugossa verdict in the case of violence in relation to the representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

On November 19, the prosecutor requested three general regime for Cherepovsky.

Cherepovsky is 21 years old, he is a native of Novocherkassk. He was one of the most noticeable figures in the opposition movement of Rostovshchina. Since March 2013, he participated in shares in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. Married, raising a child.

On May 1, Cherepovsky and his party comrade Anastasia Zinovkin arrived from Moscow to Tver for a coordinated demonstration for the propaganda of the ideas of "other Russia". After the start of the procession, Cherepovsky unfolded the flag with a lemon and took out the Total Mobilization for the distribution of the party newspaper. For this,activists were detained .

Digossov was delivered to OP "Central". Zinovkina, on the basis of a falsified protocol under part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the legal requirements of the policeman) was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest. Meanwhile, a criminal case was opened on Cherepovsky under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the use of non -hazardous violence to a representative of the authorities), which provides for up to five years of the colony. He was accused of attacking the district city op "Central" Denis Vasin and Evgeny Artamonov. On May 3, Judge Elena Zaitseva arrested an activist . Cherepovsky was placed in a pre-trial detention center-1.

The scratches were charged with the scratches, which the elderly participants in the demonstrations tried to recapture activists. There is information that the FSB insisted on the factory of the case.

Artamonov later abandoned the initially these testimonies, and Vasin remained the only victim in the case. As stated in the materials of the case, which was conducted by the investigator of the city department of the Investigative Committee of Eduard Asadov, during the detention of Cherepovsky, Vasin clasped around his neck in order to roll to the ground. Meanwhile, the video published in the media does not confirm this version.

The trial of Cherepovsky began on July 11 . Witnesses of the accusations were exclusively employees of OP "Central". Most of them in court actually refuted their testimonies given during the investigation, saying that they did not see how the activist beats Vasin.

Vasin himself also repeatedly changed his testimony - both in the investigation and in court. In particular, at the trial, he stated that during the detention, Cherepovsky did not swear obscenities and did not grab him for his shape. Vasin explained that the previous testimony was written from the words of another policeman.

Witnesses of the defense, among whom were a deputy of the Tver City Duma, an assistant to the deputy of the regional legislative assembly and the secretary of the Communist Party regional committee, confidently denied the charges against Cherepovsky.

In addition, the lawyer of the Agora Association Svetlana Sidorkina, who defends the Police, attracted to participate in the psychologist, who remotely tested the activist according to the methods used in the Federal Penitentiary Service. At the hearings on November 5, an expert - the lieutenant colonel of the internal service - presented the conclusion according to which Cherepovsky is psychologically stable, is not inclined to violence and does not need to correct behavior.

On July 3, the Memorial human rights center recognized Cherepovsky by political prisoner.

After the start of the trial of Cherepovsky, the Gnyatsovsky and civil activists held a number of direct action shares in Tver in support of the comrade. The most striking of them was the procession on August 16 along Volokolamsk Prospekt , past the court building. One of the participants in this action, Vera Lavreshina, after the detention, was also charged with the 318th article. The trial of Lavreshina will begin in December .

In October, the Nizhny Novgorod civilian journalist Stanislav Vlasov released the documentary "Pro-2. Article 318" dedicated to the Cherepovsky case.