The court approved a fine and compulsory labor for Cheboksary activists for observing the picket

On December 12, the Supreme Court of Chuvashia recognized as legal a fine of 200 thousand rubles to local civil activist Elena Blinova for observing the picket on October 29. For the same reason, other Cheboksary activists were assigned 28 to 32 hours of compulsory labor, Pavel Romanov said.

OVD-Info Thus, the Leninsky District Court found Blinova guilty under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding a public event).

decision The Supreme Court approved the decisions on compulsory work assigned to activists earlier: Elena Voevodina, Rustem Gareev, Anton Sidorov for 32 hours of work, Mikhail Budarin and Olga Kiseleva - for 28 and 30 hours. All of them were found guilty of holding a public rally without filing a notification (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

received In court, the interests of the activists were represented by Pavel Romanov. He noted that each meeting lasted no longer than 10 minutes. The defense attorney added that Judge Maksimova rejected Budarin’s request to adjourn because Romanov was at the meeting in the next office.

Because of October 29, Cheboksary civil activist Vyacheslav Rybakov held a single picket. The video from the outdoor surveillance camera shows that his associates were walking next to him - they stopped for a few minutes to take pictures of the action and watch the progress of it. The police mistook a single action for a mass one and activists.

detained “The activists were charged with group picketing only on the grounds that, according to the police, they closely and demonstratively observed the single picket of their ally Rybakov. During the hearing, I even received a remark from the judge when a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said that the purpose of this picket was the picket itself. Now, thanks to these decisions of the Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary, any passer-by who gazed at the poster may end up in the dock,” said Yuri Sidorov, a lawyer at the regional branch of the public organization Open Russia.