In St. Petersburg, the court confirmed the fine for broadcasting “Mediazona” from the meeting in the “Network” case

The Dzerzhinsky District Court in St. Petersburg rejected an appeal by Mediazona journalist Sasha Bogino to a fine of 500 rubles for trying to broadcast text from a meeting to extend the arrest of Igor Shishkin, an anti-fascist and defendant in the Network case. about it She tweeted .

In March, bailiff Ivan Lozovsky in the Dzerzhinsky District Court drew up a protocol against Bogino under part 2 of article 17.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - failure to comply with the order of the bailiff. Before the hearing, Yelena Krasotkina, an assistant to the chairman of the court, Viktor Shishkin, said that text broadcasting was prohibited and demanded that the laptop be handed over. The employee referred to Article 241 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The journalist refused to hand over the laptop. Then the bailiffs took her and another Mediazona journalist David Frenkel out of the hall.

about the fact that “Internet broadcast” means audio or video broadcast to Mediazone . spoke Lyudmila Bokova, a representative of the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building,

The extension of Shishkin’s arrest and the appeal against Bogino’s fine were considered by one judge, Alexander Kireev. The judge refused to withdraw, although, as the journalist pointed out, he actually witnessed how she was taken out of the hall, and could not objectively consider the complaint.

• At the end of May, Dmitry Yanchukov, Justice of the Peace of Court District 201 in St. Petersburg, fined Sasha Bogino 500 rubles.