A 17-year-old student in Tyumen reported an administrative case for posting leaflets for the film “He’s Not Dimon for You”

In Tyumen, a report was issued against 17-year-old Polytechnic College student Gleb Sh. for violating the rules of landscaping for posting homemade posters for the Anti-Corruption Foundation film “He’s Not Dimon to You.” The student himself told Mediazona about this.

The police detained him at 20:30 local time (18:30 Moscow time) on April 9 under the pretext of checking documents. The young man went into the car without resistance, where they “found leaflets of a provocative nature and radioed him that this was a violation of the constitutional order, and sent him to the police station.”

He spent about two hours there, during which time he was not allowed to contact his relatives or lawyer. Later, an employee of the commission for minors and his guardian, his grandmother, were brought to him. In her presence, police officers began to take statements from the minor.

According to the student, he was “under pressure from his guardian and three police officers: a colonel, a commission employee and the one who detained him.” They told him that “he has no right to remain silent - it will only get worse.” The young man signed the testimony, but the young man was not given a copy of the document. In addition, the police took his phone, without providing any grounds for the seizure, and demanded to know the password. The phone in which the correspondence of volunteers from the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny is stored was not turned off, but was sealed, as were the seized leaflets. The student left the department “empty, without documents, without everything.”

The next day, an employee of the commission for minors called the young man and asked him to bring a copy of his passport. He agreed on the condition that he be given a summons, after which they agreed to meet at 12 o'clock. However, even before this, people in civilian clothes detained the young man near the college, put him in a car and drove him to the department, where he was supposedly supposed to be given a summons, but instead, the student’s testimony was taken again. This time the survey took place in the absence of an employee of the commission for minors and a guardian.

According to the young man, initially they wanted to initiate a case against him “for extremism,” but they “changed their minds.” The police were interested in how he learned about the FBK film and how he became a volunteer at Navalny’s headquarters. After the interview, his phone was returned to him.

On Tuesday, the young man said, he was invited “for an examination,” where representatives of the commission on juvenile affairs and the college were present. They accused the student of “extremism and propaganda.” Law enforcement officials claimed that they allegedly found a photograph of a leaflet pasted on an information board at the entrance. At the same time, the police especially emphasized that the leaflet was pasted “on the general’s house.” The student himself notes that the security forces had “about 97 leaflets at their disposal, and they themselves could paste it and take a photograph.” As a result, a protocol was drawn up against the young man under an article on violation of the rules of public amenities (Article 4.2 of the Code of the Tyumen Region on Administrative Responsibility, the protocol is at the disposal of Mediazona), he faces a fine of 1 to 5 thousand rubles. A hearing on the administrative material is scheduled for April 20.

The student himself compares what happened with the well-known incident with Bryansk schoolchildren, only “more serious than theirs.”