EE Center demanded materials about the action in support of Dadin for a new business at 212.1 of the Criminal Code

The Center for Combating Extremism of the GUMVD of Russia in Moscow appealed to the Tver District Court with a motion to transfer materials from administrative case under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses in relation to the picket participant in support of Ildar Dadin Igor Klochkov to initiate criminal proceedings on a “repeated” violation of the rules of public events. This was announced by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Public Verdict Foundation Nikolai Zboroshenko, representing Klochkov’s interests in court.

According to Zboroshenko, the defense of the Center for the defense became known only on December 28 during the consideration of the administrative case of Klochkov in the Tver court. Judge Zatoskaya refused to satisfy the petition to transfer the case file, agreeing with the arguments of the defense that the previous court decisions Klochkov under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses necessary to initiate the case of “repeated violations” were appealed, but have not yet been considered by the Moscow City Court and, therefore, have not yet entered into force.

At the time of the conversation with Zboroshenko, the judge retired to the advisory room to make a decision on an administrative case, which means that Klochkov’s participation in the picket in support of Dadina will no longer be able to become the basis for initiating a criminal case. Information about what decision the judge in the administrative case made was not received at the time of writing.

Protocols on the fifth part of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses were drawn up on Igor Klochkov, Konstantin Tsalms and Maria Ryabikov, detained on November 9 during a series of single pickets near the building of the Prosecutor General’s Office in Moscow. The participants of the action advocated the abolition of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code and the release of the Moscow activist Ildar Dadin convicted on it. On December 21, the Tver court issued the first decision on this campaign, fining Tselms for 10 thousand rubles.

Article 212.1 was submitted to the Criminal Code in the summer of 2014. It provides for a punishment of up to five years in prison for the “repeated violation of the established procedure for conducting public events, namely, for the corresponding violation in the presence of three decisions under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for six months.

The first cases on it were instituted on active participants in the Moscow protest actions by Vladimir Ionov and Mark Galperin in January 2015, and later - also at Moscow activists Ildar Dadin and Irina Kalmykova. Ionov and Kalmykov left Russia, and the investigation of the case against Halperin was suspended due to the fact that the incident was based on the case, for which the activist was already fined administrative. In December 2015, under article 212.1 of the Criminal Code, the first conviction was sentenced - Ildar Dadin was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prison, and later the term was reduced by six months. In November 2016, Dadin, who was in the Karelian IK-7, announced torture. In early December, he was taken away from the colony, his whereabouts are still unknown.