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Yoshkar-Ola resident sent into custody
On March 24, 2016, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola changed the measure of restraint and sent into custody a resident of Mari El, Yevgeny Pirogov, accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred).
On March 24, 2016, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola changed the preventive measure for Yevgeny Pirogov, who is charged under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting ethnic hatred). Instead of a written undertaking not to leave, Pirogov was sent into custody. The reason for initiating a criminal case was the publication of E. Pirogov in the social network "VKontakte". In October 2015, Pirogov was sent to a psychiatric hospital. hospital "for the production of inpatient commission a psychiatric forensic examination for 30 days." The commission found no signs of a mental disorder and ruled that he did not need to apply coercive medical measures.
On March 24, the first meeting in the framework of the criminal case took place, three previous meetings were postponed, starting from January 27. An appeal was filed against the decision to change the measure of restraint.
Recall that Pirogov was twice brought to administrative responsibility for publishing a song by the Kolovrat group on the VKontakte social network.
Pirogov himself believes that he is being persecuted "for his convictions" and for his "opposition to local authorities."
Recall that in July 2013 and November 2012 Evgeny Pirogov was brought to administrative responsibility.
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