Kuzbass: The overwhelming roads to the coal section were fined

The Novokuznetsk District Court fined Vladimir Gorenkov and Sergey Sheremetyev for 20 and 10 thousand rubles, respectively, in addition, both received two days of administrative arrest, the press service of the court told the Siberia. Real correspondent. Both activists participated in the overlap of the road to the coal section.

Civil activists received fines for violating the order of mass event, and two days for disobedience to the requirements of the police. They were detained on December 17 and had already served the punishment, so they were released in the courtroom.

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On February 17, it was reported that in the Novokuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region, police detained several participants in the inconsistent protest. Locals, dissatisfied with an increase in the number of coal sections, tried to block the road to one of them. More than a hundred residents of the nearest villages and villages arrived at the picket place. People say that the regional authorities lobby for the interests of coal enterprises and violate the rights of residents of the region.

This is not the first rally against coal sections in the region. Earlier, residents of Kuzbass held promotions in the center of Novosibirsk , arranged single pickets along the highway and folk gatherings . After civil activists wrote a letter to the prosecutor's office, the department confirmed massive violations in coal mining in the region. Several administrative cases have been instituted.

The governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev called the coal mining in the region "scumbags". According to him, "they pay a lot of money" for protests.