A human rights activist Nagavkin was beaten in the convoy of the Moscow City Court

The Volgograd human rights activist Igor Nagavkin is beaten in the convoy premises of the Moscow City Court, arrested in the case of the theft. This was reported to the "faces" in the movement "For Human Rights".

Employees of the Moscow Police convoy regiment took part in the beating of Nagavkin. On the fact of the beating of the human rights activist, his lawyers and the movement for human rights "sent the relevant statements to the police, the prosecutor's office, the Investigative Committee and other departments.

A resident of Kalach-on-Don Nagavkin-Chairman of the Board of the Volgograd Organization of Social and Legal Protection of convicts and detained and expert of the Movement for Human Rights in the Southern Federal District. The human rights activist was detained in his city on September 29, 2016 and arrested two days later. He was charged with an attempt to steal jewelry from a pawnshop. Then it was reported that the case was qualified under part 3 of article 30 - paragraphs "A", "B" of part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code (attempted theft as part of a group of persons by prior conspiracy with illegal penetration into the premises). For this crime, the Code provides for up to 3 years 9 months of the colony.

Subsequently, the case was retrained to paragraph "A" of part 4 of Article 158 (theft as part of an organized group). Such an accusation implies a term of up to 10 years.

Politzek himself does not plead guilty. He noticed that there are witnesses who could confirm his alibi: during the theft he was in another place and physically could not attend the crime scene.

On April 10, Nagavkin was taken to Moscow. The transfer was explained by the fact that the human rights activist was combined into one proceedings with the murder case invested in Moscow (part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code) and illegal storage of weapons (part 1 of Article 222). The defendant of this case is not Nagavkin himself, but one of the arrested with him on charges of theft is a certain Alexander Medvedev. As another lawyer of Politzeck, Valery Shukhardin, said , all the defendants in the case of the theft in a pawnshop were transferred to Moscow.

Nagavkin took up human rights activities, after his brother died in Volgograd in 2005 in the SIZO-1 in Volgograd. The human rights activist has achieved a number of employees of this jail to criminal liability. Leo Ponomarev leader leader Lev Ponomarev noted "a long -term and effective struggle (Nagavkina. - Ed.) For the rights of prisoners" (

In 2010, the case of attempted the stealing of a police car was fabricated against Nagavkin (part 3 of Article 30 - Part 1 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code). Initially, he was under the subscription about the lower room, and in April 2011 he was unreasonably sent under house arrest. On July 11, 2011, the peace judge of the 78th section of the Voroshilovsky district, Maria Antonova, sentenced the human rights activist to 160 hours of compulsory work . On September 23, the Voroshilovsky district court, having examined the appeal of Nagavkin, changed the sentence for a fine of 15 thousand rubles. The regional court on November 29 left the appeal ruling in force.

Since August 8, Nagavkin held an unlimited hunger strike in the Botyri pre-trial detention center-2. In addition to water, the Politzek consumes only tea. He sought a meeting with the officials of the prosecutor's office and the TFR. The latest investigative actions were carried out with him in Volgograd on January 12. From October 12 to 21 last year, the Politzek was already holding a hunger strike in pre-trial detention center-5 of the Volgograd region in Leninsk, protesting against non-ordering medical care.