In Adygea, the court found no violation in the distribution of “Voter Strike” leaflets

In Maikop, the justice of the peace of court district No. 6 dismissed the case against Pavel Mikhailichenko, a volunteer of the strike headquarters of Alexei Navalny, as he did not find an offense in the distribution of leaflets “Voters' strike”. Mikhailichenko himself informed OVD-Info about this.

The activist was accused of illegal campaigning (Article 5.12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On March 15, law enforcement officers detained a volunteer when he was distributing leaflets in the entrances and sticking stickers on advertising stands. According to Mikhailichenko, when he was leaving the next entrance, he heard a ring in the intercom. An unknown person asked to open the door, as he "forgot the keys." When the activist left the entrance, three men twisted his hands and leaned him against the wall of the entrance. One of them, according to Mikhailichenko, filmed him and provoked him, the second tried to have a political conversation with the volunteer, the third stood aside. One of them introduced himself as the head of the Center for Combating Extremism. Mikhailichenko refused to speak, citing Article 51 of the Constitution. Law enforcement officers asked the activist to show his passport, he demanded grounds for this from them, after which the law enforcement officers threatened him with art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to the lawful order of a police officer). Then the volunteer showed the documents.

Employees of the Center "E" called the investigation team, with which the volunteer also refused to talk. Then law enforcers called an interrogating officer, who, according to Mikhailichekno, said that he was "from a special group formed for the sake of elections."

When the public defender Valery Brinikh arrived, he, together with the activist, insisted on drawing up a report on the inspection of the place of the offense and a protocol on the personal search on the spot. In the presence of attesting witnesses, the interrogating officer pulled out 400 leaflets, 100 stickers and an access key from the activist's backpack.

According to Mikhailichenko, law enforcement officers wearing rubber gloves took leaflets out of mailboxes, took fingerprints from pasted stickers and filmed the scene.

Earlier that day, the activist took direction for observation, came to the polling station, met the chairman of the commission and submitted documents.