The court in St. Petersburg approved the refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the lawsuit against the newspaper due to an article about torture

The St. Petersburg City Court upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which dismissed the civil suit of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central District against Yana Teplitskaya, a member of the PMC, and the newspaper Moi Raion because of publications about bullying of a pregnant woman in the Department of Internal Affairs. this on her Facebook . announced Teplitskaya herself

The court recognized as lawful the decision of the Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg that the publication of a complaint about bullying a woman in police department No. 78 does not damage the business reputation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Central District.

Yana Teplitskaya told OVD-Info after which the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs filed a lawsuit against her and the newspaper. “In June 2017, at the Migrant Detention Center in St. Petersburg, a woman was welcomed to the fact that she was bullied in department No. 78. They didn’t call an ambulance, they didn’t feed her, they used force. We wrote an appeal from her words and spoke about it publicly,” the human rights activist explained.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs filed a complaint in August of the same year. "Team 29" said that the police demanded that the information in the article be recognized as untrue. They demanded from the newspaper to remove the publication , from the member of the PMC - to compensate for the damage caused to business reputation in the amount of 50 thousand rubles. In addition, the police asked to recover 8,890 rubles from both defendants for certification of screenshots of the My District website by a notary.

Yana Teplitskaya wrote that on December 18, the Primorsky Court of St. Petersburg will consider a similar lawsuit from the Ministry of Internal Affairs against her and Mediazone. We are talking about the publication of a publication that also tells about torture in police department No. 78.