Police stopped a Circassian activist twice on his way to court

On the morning of October 5, at the Magri traffic police checkpoint at the exit from Sochi, the police stopped an ambulance that was taking Circassian activist Ruslan Gvashev to a regional court hearing on his own complaint. Unknown people tried to persuade him to get out of the ambulance and go with them to the hospital. about this . wrote The "Caucasian Knot"

“The car was surrounded by about 30 people, policemen and people in civilian clothes. We were not traveling in a column, but all the cars of my escort were stopped. They said they would confiscate the car,” says Gvashev.

Gvashev was kept at the traffic police post for three hours, and then released, while the ambulance driver and his car were detained. Later, Gvashev was stopped in Tuapse.

On August 30, the Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi, having considered for the second time the case of the Circassian activist, chairman of the Council of Elders of the Shapsug Circassians Ruslan Gvashev, about an administrative offense in the form of organizing a prayer service, again imposed a fine of 10,000 rubles.

On October 5, a hearing was to be held in the Krasnodar Regional Court to appeal the fine, but the court, without warning the applicant, announced the postponement of the meeting to October 16 .