
The public board of complaints about the press recognized as propaganda a number of reports of the REN TV channel dedicated to civil activist Ildar Dadin and his wife Anastasia Zotova. The decision made on March 16 is published on the collegium website.
"Based on the results of the consideration of the information dispute, the collegium admitted that the materials issued to her court not only grossly violate the basic principles of journalistic ethics, such as reliability, reliability and impartiality, but also contain a direct violation of the rule of law," the message said.
The coordinator of Open Russia Maria Baronova addressed the collegium. Her indignation was caused by five reports under the names of the “PR“ Politzek ”Ildar Dadin was helped by William Brauder,” “The lover of his wife Dadin:“ She wanted to United Russia ”,“ Video: Dadin fought with a cellmate in the Karelian colony demanding an intimacy, ”“ Dadin discovered a double bottom in the history of Politzka, ”and“ a political trace appeared in the case of Dadin. But not the same. "
All of them were negative and went on the air one after the other, in anticipation of the consideration of the Dadin case in the Constitutional Court. This was regarded by the applicant as an attempt to influence court and public opinion.
The collegium, chaired by a member of the HRC, Ilya Shablinsky discovered in the reports "the use of means and methods that are completely incompatible with values such as honesty, truthfulness."
"All considered plots of REN TV are found called up to discredit the heroes of reports, as well as a number of other persons who have political views similar to them or occupy similar positions on specific issues," the board said. This is directly prohibited by Article 51 of the Media Law.
“In addition, at the same time, a violation of the professional and ethical norms and norms of the law is an interview about the personal life of Anastasia Zotova and the use of screenshots from personal pages of social networks,” the board noted. The norms of the Civil Code and the Law on Personal Data were violated here.
Dadin became the first in Russia convicted under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violations at rallies). On December 7, 2015, the judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow Natalia Dudar sentenced Dadina to three years of general regime ( 

On February 10, a decision of the Constitutional Court was published with a request to revise the decisions in the Dadin case. In addition, the KS indicated that the verdict to imprisonment under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code is possible only if the actions that are incriminated to the accused, "entailed the loss of a peaceful public event, causing significant harm to constitutionally protected values." The court ordered the State Duma to make appropriate adjustments to Article 212.1.
In connection with this decision, the defense of Dadin on February 13 filed a supervisory complaint about the verdict to the activist. On February 22, the Presidium of the Armed Forces decided to free Dadin . The activist is recognized as the right to rehabilitation. As the prosecutor Leonid Korzhinek stated at the hearing, two decisions on Dadin imputed by administrative articles at the time of the initiation of a criminal case did not enter into legal force, and therefore, the opening of the case was unlawful.
However, the leadership of the colony from the IK-5 of the Altai Territory in Rubtsovsk refused to let go of the documents from the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. Dadin’s lawyers sent a complaint to the ECHR against the illegal retention of the activist in the colony. The Strasbourg court ordered Russia until February 27 to give an answer on this complaint. Dadin was released only on February 26 .
Given the time spent before the sentence under house arrest, Dadin was deprived of freedom for 2 years 1 month- from January 30, 2015 (not counting the time from January 15, 2015, when he was serving a 15-day arrest for the action in support of Alexei Navalny ; before the end of his arrest was detained to initiate a criminal case). In jail and colonies, after the sentence, Dadin spent almost 1 year 4 months.
After liberation, Dadin resumed political activity. On March 10, in Moscow, by the FSIN building on Zhitnaya Street, police detained Dadin , who was there in a single picket there. The activist could not show the police a passport, because "he forgot him at home." Dadina delivered "to establish a person" to the Yakimanka police department, an administrative protocol under article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for holding a picket) was drawn up for him, but Dadin did not sign it.
On April 2, Dadin was detained for a single picket at the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate. In the Department of Internal Affairs of Tverskaya, where Dadin was taken, the investigator arrived and demanded that the witness in the criminal case of calls for riots be testified. As a result, three detainees, including Dadin, were handed the summons for interrogation.