Kolomna environmental activist sentenced to forced labor for non-existent rally

The Kolomna City Court imposed 25 hours of compulsory labor on environmental activist Vyacheslav Egorov for organizing a rally that did not take place. MBKH Media talks about this with reference to Egorov himself.

reports Judge Svetlana Belyaeva found Egorov guilty under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code (organizing a public event without approval). The material on which the accusation was based was Egorov’s article in the public “NO to the Kolomna landfill” on VKontakte.

published As Egorov told the publication, there is not a word in the article about the rally. The publication contains an analysis of the situation in the city with an invitation to readers to go to the polls. The court decided that Yegorov called for people to go to an unsanctioned rally on July 7. “The case is based on the testimony of three witnesses who said that on July 7 there was supposedly an event in Pervomaisky and they came there because they read my article, which is called ‘Plan X,’” the publication quotes the words.

some kind of eco-activist. At the trial, there were two witnesses who claimed that they read the activist’s article on August 6 in the afternoon, while it was published only in the evening of the same day. Egorov added that the case file contains testimony from other witnesses who allegedly were at the rally.

Vyacheslav Egorov connects the court decision with his environmental activities and future elections: he regularly opposes the Volovichi landfill near Moscow, and also calls for voting in elections for candidates who support fighters against landfills.

Egorov on Facebook that the Moscow Regional Court returned the case to Kolomna due to errors in the decision of the local court.

UPD wrote on September 20 that early in the morning on August 3, police officers went to Yegorov’s dacha and gave him a summons for an interview. He was taken to the police department, where a report was drawn up under Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code. On the same day he was taken to the Kolomna City Court. There he became ill, and the meeting was postponed indefinitely. arrived - In May, Egorova was already sentenced for three days under the article on disobedience to police officers (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). Then he was together with five other people during a road blockade. arrested, detained - In July, the Egorov court also placed him in custody for three days, having found him guilty of participating in an uncoordinated event that interfered with transport and passers-by (Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). placed