The case was terminated about the performance at the rally of the Left Bloc activist Danil Alferiev

On June 2, it became known that the Investigative Committee in Ulyanovsk closed the affairs of the 24-year-old Left Bloc activist Danil Alferiev, who was accused of initiating hatred "on the basis of belonging to representatives of the authorities." About this writes "Mediazona".

On November 2, 2016, the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Ulyanovsk Region opened the second criminal case of public calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for a rally of communists on November 7, 2014, which he copied from the representative of the “Eurasian Youth Union” Andrei Kovalenko, replacing the media names of the State Duma, and the appeal of the State Duma and the appeal To the President of Russia to appeal to Gennady Zyuganov.

On August 22, 2016, Alferiev was detained in Moscow as part of the first initiated criminal case for inciting enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

“The first case was conducted by the Investigative Committee, which, after the examination, considered that the signs of another crime are seen in this speech. - SK allocated materials on possible public calls for extremism and sent them to the FSB to resolve the issue of initiating a second criminal case, since the 280 article of the Criminal Code is a patrimony of the FSB. She excited. And in November 2016, the deputy prosecutor of the Ulyanovsk region seized this case from the production of the FSB and transferred to the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region. Then the cases were connected in one production. As a result, the UK came to the conclusion that there are no signs of both crimes in Alferiev’s actions and stopped criminal prosecution, ”says Rushan Kamalov, lawyer of the international human rights group.

In the decision on the termination of the criminal case, the investigator Babaev referred to the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court “On Judicial Practice in Criminal Affairs of Extremist Crimes” and the declaration of freedom of political discussion in the media adopted by the Council of Europe.

“Criticism in the media of officials (professional politicians), their actions and beliefs in itself should not be considered in all cases as an action aimed at humiliating the dignity of a person or group of persons, since in relation to these persons the limits of permissible criticism than in relation to individuals,” the resolution of the Plenum of the Armed Forces says.

From Danila Alferiev, accusations on both articles were removed, the subscription of the lower right to leave was canceled and recognized him the right to rehabilitation and compensation for non -pecuniary damage for criminal prosecution.