We celebrate holidays with arrests

Hello! The Spring and Labor Day was marked by numerous arrests: twenty-one people at two events in St. Petersburg (“Rainbow May Day” and the “Social Bloc” rally), eleven people in Moscow at the “May Day of Progressive Left” march (mainly LGBT activists), six people in Orel (Putin’s supporters who criticized the speaker of the local legislative assembly) and one in Novosibirsk (founder of the absurdist “Monstration” Artem Loskutov; on May 6 he was fined twenty thousand for violating the procedure for holding an event and immediately after the trial he was taken to the police department to draw up a protocol on the holding events without notice). The next day, Saratov arrived: Anti-Maidan supporters were detained there.

Criminal prosecutions

Tver resident Andrei Bubeev was sentenced to two years and three months of imprisonment in a penal settlement for two reposts on the social network VKontakte: an article by publicist Boris Stomakhin “Crimea is Ukraine!”, which talks about the military defeat of Russia as the ideal outcome of events, and pictures with toothpaste, the inscription “Squeeze Russia out of you!” and accompanying text about the need to destroy Russia. The term includes the year to which Bubeev was previously sentenced for reposting and possession of live ammunition.

Another sentence for statements on the Internet came into force - Tomsk blogger Vadim Tyumentsev was given five years in a general regime colony for two video messages: in one he called for expelling visitors from eastern Ukraine from Tomsk, in the other he called for trying local officials. The court banned Bubeev from using the Internet for a year after his release; the court of second instance allowed Tyumentsev to use the Internet, but for three years after his release he will not be allowed to post information there.

One of the articles under which Tyumentsev was tried was the controversial Article 282 on inciting hatred and enmity. According to the Center for Economic and Political Reforms, in five years the number of people convicted under this article has tripled .

The European Court of Human Rights began to consider Leonid Razvozzhaev’s complaint against the verdict. The Russian government has been asked questions that must be answered by June 26. And on May 4, the deadline for answering questions on Sergei Udaltsov’s complaint expired - they were both sentenced to four and a half years in prison for organizing mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square and preparing to organize mass riots in different cities of Russia.

In the case of Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, accused of murdering Russian military personnel in Chechnya, appointed lawyers appeared briefly and very soon disappeared, without having had time to familiarize themselves with the case. The judge, dissatisfied with the behavior of the existing lawyers, announced the introduction of additional defense lawyers, without even asking the opinion of the accused. Then the appointed lawyers did not appear in court, and when they did, the accused refused them, and the judge released them.

Administrative prosecution

Hardly a week goes by without arrests of people wearing Putin masks walking around the center of Moscow. There are more and more of them. On April 30, four were detained, and on May 5, three . The most active “Putin”, Roman Roslovtsev, has already accumulated nine protocols on violations of the procedure for holding an event and six decisions of the courts of first instance in these cases in six months. To initiate a criminal case under Art. 212.1 of the Criminal Code, which Roslovtsev and his like-minded people are thus opposing, three court decisions that have entered into legal force are enough.

Moscow region blogger Yan Katelevsky, who was placed under arrest for twelve days for filming near a police department, was on a dry hunger strike in custody, but after he became ill and an ambulance was called twice, he began to drink water .

And other

The devastation of the Boris Nemtsov memorial on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge has already become a routine occurrence, but on April 30 this operation was carried out twice in one day, and if the first time they did it as usual, with the detention of the activists on duty there , then the second time they did without the police at all.

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What awaits us (07.05 – 13.05)

A debate has been scheduled for May 11 in the case of Mykola Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh .

On the same day, the Supreme Court is due to consider a complaint against the ban on the Ethnopolitical Association “Russians” .

And on the same day, the second administrative case of Artem Loskutov for May 1 will be considered.

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