Human Rights Center “Memorial” filed seven complaints from detainees against the “He’s not Dimon for you” protests to the ECHR

On December 26, the Memorial Human Rights Center sent seven complaints from participants in the anti-corruption action on March 26 to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Olga Karamysheva, Ivan Karamyshev, Nikita Kanunnikov, Evgeny Arkhipov, Elena Miklasheskaya, Vladimir Avaev and Roman Bakhtiarov sent their complaints. All of them were detained during an action against corruption on March 26 in Moscow.

The applicants were accused of interfering with the functioning of life support facilities (Part 6.1, Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) or violating the rules of participation in a rally (Part 5, Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). However, they did not resist and did not commit any violent actions. Each of the applicants spent between an hour and four hours in a police car waiting to be taken to the police station.

The court hearings took place in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. The detainees were found guilty and fined from 10 to 15 thousand rubles. The complaints to the Moscow City Court were rejected.

In the complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the applicants indicate a violation of articles on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms No. 5 (liberty and security of person), 6 (fair trial), 10 (freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of peaceful meetings).

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On March 26, large-scale protests took place in Russia; on this day, according to various sources, from 36 to 88 thousand people in 97 cities took to the streets. In Moscow - more than during . After the dispersal of the protests on March 26, nine people in three cities became involved in criminal cases. They were charged under Article 318 of the Criminal Code - use of violence against a government official.

1,043 people at the rally on Bolotnaya Square were detained on May 6, 2012 - on December 7, Dmitry Krepkin was sentenced to one and a half years in a general regime colony. , , , and - detained at the March 26 rally in Moscow and also accused of violence against government officials - received actual prison sentences ranging from 8 months to 3 years and eight months. Kuliy is already free.

sentenced by Yuri Kuliy Alexander Shpakov Stanislav Zimovets Andrey Kosykh Alexey Politikov came out - Read more about the accused in the wake of the protests on March 26 in.

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