Sentence on "Avn case"

On August 10, at 12:00 in the Tver District Court of Moscow, the sentence in the “Army of the will of the people” will begin.

In the debate on July 17, the prosecutor Elena Frolova requested for Yuri Mukhin four and a half years of general regime, and for Valery Parfenov, Alexander Sokolov and Kirill Barabash - four years of general regime.

Hearing on the merits continues on November 23, 2016 in the Tver District Court of Moscow. Judge Alexei Krivoruchko, a defendant in Magnitsky’s list, is conducted by the process. To the defendants - activists of the initiative group for holding a referendum "For responsible power!" - Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of activities of an extremist organization) was imputed. Mukhin is under house arrest, the remaining three defendants - in a pre -trial detention center.

According to the plot of the case, the accused, having formed the group “For the responsible power!”, Continued the activities of the prohibited army of the will of the people “under the plausible pretext of organizing and conducting a referendum”, and also distributed extremist materials.

Publicist Mukhin, Computer, Partenov and economist and journalist of RBC Sokolov were arrested on July 29, 2015 . On August 19, Mukhina, who at that time was 66 years old, was transferred under house arrest. On December 18, 2015, a retired lieutenant colonel of the Barabash Air Force was sent to the pre -trial detention center .

The proceedings were conducted by the investigator for particularly important cases of the management of the Investigative Committee in the Central District of Moscow Major of Justice Natalya Talaeva. The indictment was approved the second time. In August, it was reported that the prosecutor's office indicated the investigation department ofthe inconsistency of the qualification of the case collected materials . After that, Talaeva was forced to overthrow the persons to the defendants.

AVN, headed by Mukhin, was banned in 2010. After the decision on the ban on the organization, its members formed the group "For responsible power!". Mukhin also became its leader. The group called a referendum on which the law on the liability of deputies of the State Duma and the President should be adopted by their task: at the end of each cadence, it is proposed to be encouraged or to be encouraged, depending on the results of the work.

The members of the group adhere to imperial, Stalinist and vicinity of views, approve of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

On July 13, the trade union of journalists and media workers spoke in support of Sokolov. The appeal was signed by over 300 journalists. They called the accusations to their colleague "wild" and demanded that he be released immediately.

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