The court decision against the operator who filmed a vacant lot near the police station in Ramenskoye has been overturned

On August 4, the Moscow Regional Court overturned the decision of the Ramenskoye Court on an administrative arrest for 10 days of cameraman Andrei Orel, who was detained on April 28 along with blogger Yan Katelevsky in Ramenskoye. Vadim Korovin wrote about this on Twitter:

Katelevsky, Orel, and activist Yevgeny Proshin were detained on April 28 by police near the Ramenskoye police station. Katelevsky, who had already been detained and beaten the day before for filming a wasteland near the police department, at the end of the court session on the administrative case brought against the blogger the previous evening, went with Orel and Proshin to the police department building to film his story about the detention . Right during the live broadcast, the police approached the activists and detained them. Among the police officers who carried out the arrest was an officer who beat Katelevsky on April 27.

In May, the same Moscow Regional Court dismissed complaints against court decisions against Katelevsky and Proshin, who were arrested on April 28 for 12 days and 3 days, respectively. And the consideration of Orel's appeal was delayed due to bureaucratic red tape in court.

On July 25, Mediazona published a transcript of Katelevsky's dictaphone recording, which he made during and after his arrest. The police officers took away the voice recorder that was turned on and forgot to turn it off - he recorded the conversations of the police officers with the judge and among themselves. The police discussed whether to plant a cartridge in the blogger’s bag, and the judge then reproached them for their careless work during the arrest and the lack of attesting witnesses. According to Korovin, the decision to cancel the April resolution is connected precisely with the publication of this entry.

UPD. Orel himself told OVD-Info about the phone that the court granted the complaint against the decision of the Ramensky Court on formal grounds. Allegedly, the testimony of witnesses for the prosecution was collected improperly, and therefore the evidence base is insufficient to establish the fact of an offense.