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Chekist Day and Stalin's birthday
Hello! On December 21, the Day of Security Service Workers, eight civil activists were detained while walking around the center of Moscow. For a long time they were driven around Moscow in an unmarked van, then brought to the police department, where they took explanations from them and released them. In the evening in Krasnodar, a wooden cross appeared on the bust of the founder of the Cheka, Dzerzhinsky. In this regard, the police tried to take the activist Viktor Chirikov to the department, and then detained the artist and activist Aleksey Knedlyakovsky. The next day, the court arrested him for 15 days, without waiting for a lawyer and without considering the evidence.
On December 22, on Stalin's birthday, in Moscow, during the action of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to lay flowers at his bust, the detained leader of the "God's Will" movement Dmitry Enteo and Orthodox activist Lyudmila Esipenko were , who threw carnations at the monument with the words "Burn in hell, murderer of the Russian people." that day But in Pyatigorsk, on the contrary, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who came with flowers to the Monument of Glory, were detained .
Other lack of freedom of assembly
near the World Trade Center, where Vladimir Putin's press conference was held On December 23 , three people were detained , including a woman with disabilities : the police offered to take her to the correct entrance to the event and took her to the police department.
On the same day, six people were detained near the Moscow mayor's office . against them Protocols were drawn up , stating that they "held posters calling for the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities." They face fines of up to 20,000 rubles or up to 40 hours of compulsory work.
The courts continue to hand down indictments in cases of "violations at public events". The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined activist Konstantin Tselms 10,000 rubles for a one-man picket in support of Ildar Dadin. And the court of second instance upheld the decisions on fines for several truckers detained in Khimki on the anniversary of the protests against the Platon system, and two of the five meetings were held without a defense lawyer .
Usually, thousands of fines are based on the fact that the action was not agreed in advance, but at the same time, local authorities come up with a variety of reasons for refusing to approve protest actions. In Orel, they refused to agree on a rally against the governor because of the allegedly too large number of participants. In Novosibirsk, snow removal became an obstacle to the event, in Yaroslavl - not removed snow . In Orenburg, it was forbidden to hold rallies in parks, in Tomsk - near railway stations. And in order not to let the Rostov miners into Moscow, the local authorities staged a whole special operation .
Criminal prosecutions
The Supreme Court refused to consider Ildar Dadin's appeal against the verdict. But they promised not to start a case against Dadin for a fight with a cellmate. At the same time, where Dadin is currently located, who was taken away from the Karelian colony in early December after complaints of torture, is still unknown.
The Kurgan regional court refused to release the children's teacher Yevgenia Chudnovets, who tried to draw attention to bullying in a children's camp. The court only reduced her term by one month, and also canceled the decision to transfer the Chudnovets child to an orphanage. Earlier, she was found guilty of distributing child pornography for reposting a scene from the camp.
But the case of Khopr's defenders, accused of extortion from the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, was returned to the prosecutor's office : the court considered that there was not enough evidence in it.
and later arrested in Moscow , they are accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization. were detained Suspected members of the Tablighi Jamaat Muslim movement
The Tyumen Regional Court sentenced blogger Alexei Kungurov to two and a half years in a colony-settlement under an article on justifying terrorism for a LiveJournal post about the situation in Syria. A resident of Kaluga, Roman Grishin, was charged with inciting hatred for reposting a video with the song “This, baby, is rashism.” He was summoned to the FSB and asked why he was visiting Ukraine and taking pictures on the Maidan. A citizen of Belarus, Kirill Silivonchik, who served two years in a colony-settlement for posts in support of Ukraine, was deported to his homeland.
A court in Vladivostok placed an English teacher under house arrest for “humiliating Russians” during a volleyball game. placed Pavel Volkov, a resident of Yekaterinburg, was also under house arrest, accused of inciting hatred for reposting a video and an inscription in the entrance. Before that, he was unexpectedly detained and kept overnight at the police station, without letting a lawyer see him. Read more about the mysterious actions of the police and Center "E" in the story of a member of the Public Monitoring Commission of the Sverdlovsk Region, Sergei Zykov.
Ekaterinburg blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, who is in jail on charges of inciting religious hatred and insulting the feelings of believers, was considered suicidal and put on a professional record as an extremist .
In the Perm Territory, the FSB detained a schoolboy for writing on the VKontakte social network that “churches should be burned,” he was accused of inciting extremism. In Chelyabinsk, the prosecutor's office issued a warning to student Ekaterina Omelchenko for an interview in which she expressed her disagreement with the construction of a chapel and offered to sign a petition.
Many who have been subjected to political persecution are not left alone and in places of deprivation of liberty. by a court decision A blogger from Tver, Andrey Bubeev, who was convicted under several articles for a number of posts on the Internet, was transferred from a colony-settlement to a general regime colony: more than 60 violations of the order were counted in him. To the National Bolshevik Yuri Staroverov, who was convicted for an alleged attack on a riot policeman, employees of the Center "E" came to the colony and offered to "make friends".
The European Court of Human Rights demanded that the Russian government pay compensation to nationalists Daniil Konstantinov and Alexander Belov for excessively long detention and the National Bolshevik Party Igor Berezyuk for the illegal extension of arrest. Konstantinov, who was accused of murder and then hooliganism in the presence of an iron-clad alibi, and Berezyuk, who served time for participating in the riots on Manezhnaya Square, are currently at large.
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