COP meeting on the complaint of Ildar Dadina

On January 24, a meeting of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the complaint of Ildar Dadin against the "rally" article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations at rallies) will be held in St. Petersburg.

In December, the Constitutional Court for the second time adopted a complaint filed by Politsek and his lawyers Ksenia Kostromina and Alexei Lipzer. The complaint states that the “rally” article of the Criminal Code contradicts the many provisions of the Constitution, in particular about the rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression of opinions, as well as about the inadmissibility of re -prosecution for responsibility for the same actions.

The first time Dadin and his lawyers tried to appeal Article 212.1 in the Constitutional Court at the end of 2015, during the trial in the case of an activist. However, then the paper was rejected on formal grounds.

On December 7, 2015, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Natalia Dudar sentenced Dadina under Article 212.1 to three years of general regime (

VIDEO ). She announced the activist guilty of participating in protests on August 6, August 23, September 13 and December 5, 2014. On March 31, 2016, the judge of the Moscow City Court Natalya Borisova, having examined Dadin's appeal, reduced his term of up to two and a half years (

VIDEO ).

This is the first and, as far as is known, the only verdict on the “rally” article included in the Criminal Code in 2014.