The court overturned the decision to place a Barnaul resident for a psychiatric examination because of memes

The Altai Regional Court overturned the decision of the court of first instance, which decided to send Anton Angel to a psychiatric hospital for an examination. about this on Facebook . wrote Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of the Human Rights Protection of Open Russia in Siberia,

The angel is suspected under article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity) because of the saved images on VKontakte. According to him, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism have been following his page since 2016 and have come to the conclusion that he has a "hostile attitude towards Jews."

On September 14, Angel was detained on the basis of a decision of the Zarinsky City Court dated August 12 and at the request of the investigator to be forcibly taken to the hospital. At that time, according to the suspect, the decision had not yet come into force.

The police officers wanted to forcefully take Angel to a psychiatric examination, but his lawyer Roman Omzhegov intervened in what was happening. On that day, according to the defender of OVD-Info, law enforcement officers used force against him and his client, but as a result, Angel was not placed in the hospital.

a criminal case under article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against government officials) . After the incident, Omzhegov and his client filed a statement with the police, but later they began to threaten the lawyer himself with

A criminal case against Angel was opened in April. According to the Human Rights Protection of Open Russia, in 2017, VKontakte users Nikita Bobrov and Oleg Denisov “accidentally went to Angel’s page on the social network and found a repost of “extremist content” there. Later, as MBH Media clarifies, these people were attesting witnesses during a search in Angel's apartment, during which his phone, computer and flash drives were confiscated from him. Searches also took place in his mother's apartment.

• In the summer of 2018, it became known about several criminal cases for VKontakte in the Altai Territory. Andrey Shasherin is also accused of extremism because of the saved pictures. Because of this, the court decided to send him for examination to a psychiatric hospital.
• 23-year-old resident of Barnaul Maria Motuznaya is also accused of inciting hatred or enmity (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) due to the publication of pictures on VKontakte. In October, the court returned her case to the prosecutor's office.
• Another resident of Barnaul, Daniil Markin, is also accused of extremism because of the pictures on the social network.
• Applications against Markin and Motuznaya were written by the same people - Anastasia Bitner and Daria Isaenko. Before the initiation of criminal cases, neither Markin nor Motuznaya knew these girls.