Blogger detained in Moscow region sentenced to 12 days

The Ramenskoye City Court arrested blogger and activist Yan Katelevskiy for 12 days on April 28 while recording a video about his , which happened the night before, April 27. The court found Katelevskiy guilty of committing an administrative offense under Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobeying a lawful order of a police officer). In response to the charges brought against him and the punishment in the form of administrative arrest, Katelevskiy announced the beginning of a hunger strike.

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The operator Andrey Orel, who was detained together with Yan Katelevskiy, is, according to his wife, in the Ramensky OVD. They plan to take him to court in the morning. The hearing on Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (failure to obey a lawful order of a police officer) is scheduled for 9 a.m.

According to Andrey Filin, activist Yevgeny Proshin, who was detained along with Katelevskiy and Orel, will also be tried tomorrow.

Blogger and activist Yan Katelevskiy, cameraman Andrey Orl and activist Evgeny Proshin were detained by police officers in Ramenskoye on April 28. Katelevskiy, who had already been detained and beaten the day before for filming a vacant lot near the police station, after today's court hearing on the administrative case brought against the blogger the night before, went with Andrey Orl and Evgeny Proshin to the building of the Ramenskoye police station to film his story about the detention. Right during the live broadcast, police officers approached the activists and detained them. Among the police officers who carried out the detention was the officer who beat Yan Katelevskiy on April 27.