A court in Kazan dismissed the case against a picketer who appealed to the President of Tatarstan

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan dismissed the case against Rafik Karimullin, an activist of the Union of Tatar Youth Azatlyk. He came out with a poster in front of the government building of Tatarstan with an appeal to the president of the republic, Rustam Mannikhanov. about this Writes "Idel. Realii” with reference to lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who cooperates with the human rights organization “Zone of Law”.

Suchkov said that the police tried to prove that Karimullin's action was a one-man picket, and he violated the decree of the Kazan executive committee on public actions during the World Cup. The lawyer claims that his client did not stand in a single picket, but only turned to the president of Tatarstan with a request to protect the local bookstore. In addition, in the police report, the text of Karimullin's poster is written in Russian, although in the original it was in Tatar.

• On May 28, Karimullin went on a picket in front of the building of the Republic of Tatarstan against the closure of a Tatar book store on Bauman Street in Kazan. This was reported on the website "Idel. Realities". It also talks about cuts in the Tatar book publishing house.
• OVD-Info wrote about Presidential Decree No. 202, which limits the holding of public events in the cities where the World Cup matches will be held. In accordance with the decision of the executive committee of Kazan, from May 25 to July 25, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets on topics not related to the 2018 World Cup can only be held from 9:00 to 14:00 in the villages of Derbyshki and Yudino.