The first final verdict for rallies

Hello! On Thursday, March 31, the Moscow City Court considered an appeal against the first verdict under the odious Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code on “repeated” violations at rallies. The court refused to overturn the conviction of Ildar Dadin, who was sentenced to three years in prison for participating in peaceful protests, but reduced the prison term by six months.

Detentions

On March 26, nine people were detained at an agreed picket in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park; the police did not like the text on one of the posters, which allegedly “did not correspond to the theme of the declared action.” For almost all of them, protocols were drawn up for violating the procedure for holding the event.

On March 31, defenders of the Moscow Dubki Park, protesting against the construction of a high-rise building, were attacked by a private security company, after which more than ten activists were detained . They were accused of disobeying the lawful demands of police officers and were left overnight in different police departments. The next day, the park defenders were fined one thousand rubles each.

On March 29, about forty participants in the action against the work of the Electrozinc plant weredetained in Vladikavkaz. Protocols were drawn up for all of them regarding “simultaneous mass stay or movement.”

On March 27 , members of the Public Monitoring Commission were detained in St. Petersburg correctional colony No. 6. The reason was that the prisoner gave them a letter complaining about the actions of the colony administration. A report was drawn up against one of the human rights activists regarding failure to comply with the administration’s demands.

On March 31, in Yekaterinburg , deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and party members were detained for erecting a tent at the site of infill development.

On the same day in Moscow, an activist opposing construction on Leninsky Prospekt was detained in a stronghold , where he himself had come to file a complaint about the attack. He was sent to the police department, where they promised to draw up a protocol for a single picket, but in the end everything was limited to writing an explanatory note .

And another arrest on March 31: in the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk region, a participant in a rally in support of truck driver Alexander Zakharov, sentenced to nine years for murder, which, according to the truckers’ union, he did not commit, was detained.

Criminal prosecutions

In Krasnodar, an appeal against the sentence of Daria Polyudova, sentenced to two years in a penal colony for anti-Putin publications on social networks, was considered: the regional court left the sentence unchanged .

Sergei Udaltsov , accused in the Bolotnaya case of organizing “mass riots,” was denied parole. Parole was also denied to Sergei Krivov , also convicted in the Bolotnaya case.

The artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who is in a pre-trial detention center for setting fire to the door of the FSB building in Moscow, has once again had his sentence extended and the classification of the crime changed : now it is believed that he committed not an act of vandalism, but damage to a cultural heritage site.

In different regions of the country, people continue to be persecuted for terrorism solely because of suspicions of involvement in the activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization. In St. Petersburg, Sergei Yablokov (twelve and a half years) and Roman Ivanov (thirteen years and four months) were sentenced to long terms for organizing a “terrorist cell.” In Tatarstan, women suspected of terrorism were placed under house arrest.

A new case was opened against the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalya Sharina, accused of inciting national hatred due to a book discovered during a search - for embezzlement.

Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov, sentenced to three years in prison for publications on social networks, was placed in a punishment cell for the third consecutive term .

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