Human rights activist fined for picketing in support of beaten journalists

The Syktyvkar city court fined human rights activist Igor Sazhin 10,000 rubles for a one-man picket in support of journalists, human rights activists and a driver beaten in Ingushetia near the border with Chechnya. about this on Facebook. writes His colleague Ernest Mezak

The picket was held in Syktyvkar on Stefanovskaya Square, where any public events are prohibited, since the entire square is declared the territory immediately adjacent to the building of the Republican Constitutional Court. “However, the defense lawyer’s argument that the human rights activist’s picket could not interfere with the work of the Komi Constitutional Court in any way, and the proposal to dismiss his case for insignificance, were rejected by the judge,” writes Mezak.