The court extended house arrest for a minor defendant in the “June 12 Case”

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the house arrest of schoolboy Mikhail Galyashkin until October 12. RAPSI writes about this with reference to lawyer Sergei Badamshin. Galyashkin is accused of spraying pepper spray in the face of a National Guard employee during a rally on June 12.

On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court rejected the complaint against the preventive measure and left Galyashkin under house arrest. A teenager can attend educational institutions, but in other cases he cannot leave home and use the Internet. At the trial, Badamshin said that according to psychologists’ research, his client needs communication with people.

The student was detained at an anti-corruption rally on June 12. Later he was charged with using violence against a law enforcement officer (under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). On June 16, Galyashkin was sent under house arrest for two months. On August 11, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the period of house arrest until September 13.

On September 1, the Investigative Committee began checking the actions of the police who detained Galyashkin, since the next day after the arrest, a medical examination discovered a bruise on the schoolboy’s neck, which “formed from the impact or compression of a hard, blunt object with a limited contact surface.”

Protests against corruption took place on June 12 in 154 cities of Russia. Unlawful arrests and beatings of participants by police were recorded at the protests. More than 1,769 people were taken to the police department. Across 46 police departments, officers committed at least 109 serious violations of the law. In addition, several participants in the June 12 protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg were charged with using violence against police officers; on September 6, the court sentenced one of them to 2.5 years in prison.