The court fined the participants of the Adam Smith Readings, detained on November 5

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined six members of the Vesna movement from St. Petersburg and Veliky Novgorod for one thousand rubles, who were detained on November 5 after the Readings of Adam Smith. This was reported to OVD-Info by Artur Shapovalov, a lawyer for the Human Rights Defenders of Open Russia, who represents the interests of the activists.

Sulya Irina Zubova found them guilty of disobeying the lawful demands of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Police officers Yevsevicheev and Zarshikov, who detained the young people, were summoned to the meeting as witnesses. At first, they stated that the activists "gathered, shouted slogans, waved their hands." Later, law enforcement officers said that they were given “passive resistance”, despite the fact that the detainees showed them the required documents and things, and later, at their request, entered the paddy wagon.

Valya Dekhtyarenko, human rights manager for Open Russia , wrote on her Telegram channel that the protocols of the policemen do not correspond to the videotape they watched in the courtroom: the documents say that “all six were walking in the same white Navalny T-shirt,” while only one was on the video. a man in a blue T-shirt with the same inscription.

Viasna activists, among whom were Anastasia Semenova, Yaroslava Putrova, Maria Lavina, Kirill Brodsky, Elena Mazovetskaya, Vasily Neustroev, and other participants in the Adam Smith readings, were detained on November 5, when they were on their way to lunch from the HSE building.

They were kept in the department for about 52 hours, and then they were released due to the expiration of the detention period, without any appointment of court hearings. The protocols drawn up for the activists were sent for revision, and the new ones were already without their signatures.