Igor Stenin was released

The leader of the organization “Russians in Astrakhan”, Igor Stenin, has been released from the Federal Public Institution of the Tambov Region. "Caucasian Knot" is about this.

IK-3 reports that Stenin was released after the original court order to terminate criminal proceedings against him was brought to the colony.

On May 30, the Presidium of the Astrakhan Regional Court considered the cassation appeal against the sentence imposed on Stenin. The court decided to overturn the verdict, terminating the criminal case due to the lack of corpus delicti.

On May 16, 2016, the Soviet Court of Astrakhan accepted Stenin to two years in prison for public calls for extremist activities (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

sentenced to a colony-settlement. In February 2017, Stenin’s defense filed a complaint against the court’s verdict to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. According to Stenin's lawyers, the Russian authorities violated Article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (freedom of expression).

filed on March 1, 2017, it became known that Stenina was transferred to a general regime colony. At first, Stenin was in the Astrakhan region, but in November 2016, the court toughened the conditions for serving his sentence due to alleged violations of the regime. Before this, Stenin was placed in a punishment cell several times.

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