In Mari El, the court record was distorted in the case against a human rights organization

In Mari El, the human rights organization "Man and the Law" announced the distortion of the court record of the meeting in the case of the lack of marking "foreign agent" on Facebook. This is reported by "Idel. Realities".

On August 13, the city court of Yoshkar-Ola fined the organization 300,000 rubles, finding it guilty of distributing materials by a foreign agent without proper marking (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Human rights activists checked the audio recording of the meeting with the court record and found out that the document drawn up in court was shortened. According to lawyers, he distorts the arguments and arguments of the defense. The organization has already filed a complaint with the Supreme Court.

The Man and the Law organization claims that the “foreign agent” label has disappeared from the Facebook page after updating the social network settings. According to human rights activists, the recording has already been restored.

In addition, in their opinion, the judge did not assess the financial condition of the organization. Due to a fine of 300 thousand rubles, she may stop her work.

• At the end of 2014, the Ministry of Justice entered the organization Man and Law into the register of foreign agents. In August 2016, she was fined 150,000 rubles for posting on her co-chairman Sergey Poduzov's personal blog without proper labeling.