Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev received 25 days of arrest for a call to support the defendants in the affairs of "new greatness" and "network"

The Tver District Court of Moscow arrested 25 days the head of the movement "For Human Rights" and a member of the Moscow Helsinsky group of Lev Ponomarev, reports "OVD-Info" with reference to the United Group of Public Supervision (Ron).

Judge Dmitry Gordeev found the 77-year-old Ponomarev, guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the fact that he called for participation in the inconsistent campaign "for our children" in support of the defendants in the affairs of "new greatness" and "network". Ponomarev believes that these cases are fabricated, and the testimony was given under torture . About this correspondent "Echo of Moscow" was told by Ponomarev himself.

As reported on Twitter , the public, before the verdict announcement of the verdict, and the defenders sought permission to shoot the announcement. It was not possible to get it, and many agreed to remove the announcement. “As a result, the bailiffs hastily walked between the shooters, closing the cameras. And it was poorly heard by the judge,” Twita authors say. At the same time, Ponomarev’s police guards hid the badges with body armor and refused to introduce themselves, referring to the law on the police. Activists also note that the Tver court posted the rules of conduct related to the Meshchansky district court. “Bogdanov Anton Andreyevich, deputy chief of the FSSP in court, promised to fix the violations,” Twita authors say.

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At the end of the court session, Ponomarev was sent to the special reception of N 1 on Simferopol Boulevard. The lawyer of the public figure Natalya Trubacheva told the MBH Media that she intends to appeal the court decision.

“We will file an appeal. Judge Gordeev rejected all the defense petitions, issued a decision to arrest for 25 days, found some burdened circumstances. It is not clear to us why such a severe punishment,” she said, calling the court a “trial”, having a political character and directed against human rights defenders.

The chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fedotov called the decision of the Tver District Court of Moscow inexplicable to arrest the head of the Lev Ponomarev Law of the Human Rights movement.

"On behalf of the Council, I express the outrage by a court decision to send a 77-year-old human rights activist Leo Ponomarev for 25 days under arrest. We hope that the Moscow City Court will reconsider this inexplicable decision," the spent press service said on Wednesday.

Fedotov noted that the court has the right to impose any punishment located within the sanction of the relevant article of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, "but any sane person understands that the law gives a very wide range in punishments in order to individualize it, taking into account the personality of a person, his age, state of health and the real public danger of the deed."

“In this case, I am convinced, the court could limit himself to a fine. I hope that the City Court will correct the decision of the Tver court in the very near future,” the head of the HRC emphasized.

Ekaterina Vinokurova, a member of the Human Rights Council, added that by its decision the Russian femid "is jealous of the life and health of Leo Ponomarev, violating his constitutional rights." "The inhumane and disproportionate judgment cannot be considered justiceing. I hope this shameful sentence will be revised in the coming days," she said.

In Moscow, the event, for the mention of which Ponomarev was judged, was held on October 28 near the FSB building on Lubyanka, the action also held in St. Petersburg. Both rallies were not agreed with the authorities and turned into mass detentions. More than ten people were detained in the capital, about 40 in St. Petersburg.