The court canceled the administrative supervision of Tatar human rights activist Kashapov

On October 5, the Komi Supreme Court canceled administrative supervision of Tatar human rights activist Rafis Kashapov, who was sentenced to three years in prison for several publications on social networks. about this on Facebook . wrote Now he is in penal colony No. 19. Ernest Mezak

Three years of administrative supervision assigned to Kashapov after his release from the colony was canceled, thus the court satisfied the appeal of lawyer Ernest Mezak (Public Verdict Foundation). The representative of IK-19 refused his claim at the hearing, due to which the decision of the first instance did not enter into legal force, and the proceedings on the claim were terminated.

Kashapov was appointed administrative supervision on July 11, 2017 by a judge of the Ukhta City Court, representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service requested five years of supervision for Kashapov. Violation of the regime would be fraught with the initiation of proceedings for evading administrative supervision (Article 314.1 of the Criminal Code), up to one year in prison.

Kashapov, chairman of the All-Tatar Public Center in Naberezhnye Chelny, was arrested in December 2014 for publishing three texts and one demotivator on the Internet critical of the annexation of Crimea and Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine. On September 15, 2015, Judge Dan Shakurov of the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court sentenced a public figure to three years of general regime for inciting hatred or enmity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and public calls for separatism via the Internet (Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code).