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Judge of the Oktyabrsky District Court of Vladimir Yuri Yevtukhov found guilty of public demonstration of Nazi symbols Civil activist Victoria Lobova and arrested her for three days, the publication about Vladimir reports . The reason was the repost by the activist in the social network images of Vladimir Putin in Nazi form.

Lobov has already tried to attract under an administrative article on violations during mass events for participating in the picket on June 12. However, on July 4, the same court did not see the composition of the offense in its actions and justified the activist.

After that, the police drew up a protocol on Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi symbols, a fine of up to two thousand rubles or an arrest of up to 15 days). On her page they found a repost picture in which Putin was compared with Adolf Hitler. The inscription noted that both "started with the Olympics", "attacked Ukraine" and "" disgraced their countries around the world. " Russian president would

In May, lawyers of the Human Rights Group "Agora" appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a request to assess the legitimacy of the application in Russia Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses . As noted in Agora, the courts do not take into account the context and find guilty, including those who do not justify the Nazis. In the ECHR, complaints were sent to the resident of the Penza region Ivan Gorodisky and Krasnodar Alexei Mandriegel. They were sentenced to seven and ten days of administrative arrest for publication on the social network of photo collages with Putin, on which the swastika appeared.

“We want the ECHR to recognize the prosecution of administrative responsibility for the publication of the swastika without the purpose of promoting the invasion of freedom of opinion, since national courts do not take into account the context. But we agree that we must attract those who promote Nazi ideas,” said the lawyer of Agora, Alexei Glukhov, until 2014, was punished not only for demonstration of demonstration Nazi symbols, but with the goal of propaganda.

According to Glukhov, the number of decisions made under this article increased by 3.5 times in recent years, from 480 to 1.8 thousand. At the same time, in Russia there is no absolute ban on demonstrating the swastika. “Even in the media you can publish a swastika, if there is no propaganda goal, it officially explained Roskomnadzor in 2015. The ban was established only for individuals,” the lawyer said.