Moscow: detentions and arrests of ANS supporters

Activists of the Association of Popular Resistance (PRES) are systematically brought to administrative responsibility for their public actions. We collect all the cases of their persecution known to us in one list.

• Nikita Zaitsev (press secretary of the ANS):

• On September 18, the Ostankino District Court of Moscow arrested Zaitsev for 5 days under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event). The reason for this was a walk after the Pugachev Fest 2019 event.

- On March 4, in Moscow, the Nikulinsky District Court fined him 15 thousand rubles under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules for holding a public event) - the activist appeals the court decision. His administrative case is related to a picket in support of the anarchist Azat Miftakhov on the territory of Moscow State University, during which he and several other people were detained.

• On January 28, the Presnensky District Court fined Zaitsev 10 thousand rubles under Part 5 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules for holding a public event) - the activist appeals the court decision. This case is related to the action against the Nightingale cinema (see Osipova’s first case).

• Daniil Latyshev (former member of the ANS) - on May 25 he was brought to justice under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event). His case is related to the action on January 30 this year. As part of it, activists of the ANS and “Unlimited Protest” marched along Tverskaya Street with a banner “Freedom of Peaceful Assembly”, chanting the slogans: “The President is overdue - the protest is indefinite” and “For your and our freedom.”

• Liliya Osipova:

• On May 23, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow fined Osipova 15 thousand rubles under Part 6.1 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in unauthorized picketing, resulting in interference with the functioning of life support facilities). The action that led to the initiation of the case took place on May 16. ANS activists stretched a banner “Apologize for the EKB” on the gates of the patriarchal residence in Moscow and threw smoke bombs into the area. Osipova appealed the court ruling.

-On January 28, the Presnensky District Court fined her 100 thousand rubles under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the activist is appealing the court ruling). Her case is related to the action against the demolition of the Moscow Nightingale cinema. During the campaign to protect the cinema, some activists gathered for a rally near its building, and others blocked Novinsky Boulevard, walking along it with the banner “The Solovey must go on.”

• Nester Chertilov (former member of the ANS) - on March 5 in Tula, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained him in connection with “forbidden symbols”, which the activist, according to them, published on VKontakte. Chertilov himself said that during the arrest, officers questioned him about the “Hands Off the Russian Kuriles” action that took place on February 7, and demanded to name the names of the activists who took part in it. During this action, the ANS hung a banner on one of the bridges on Lenin Avenue in Tula, over the M-2 highway above the Kaluga highway.

• Maria Nekrasova - On February 27, the Preobrazhensky District Court fined her 15 thousand rubles under Part 6.1 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (participation in an unauthorized picket that resulted in interference with transport infrastructure). Her administrative case is related to the “For Free Internet” action, which ANS activists held in Moscow, in Sokolniki, on February 15. During the action, about a dozen young people came out onto the roadway with flares, an ANS flag and a banner “Resign the State Duma,” as a result of which they blocked traffic.

• Anastasia Zinovkina (Nastya Topor) - On February 26, the Preobrazhensky District Court arrested her for 7 days under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event). Her case is also connected with the action in Sokolniki.

• Alexander Buimov - On February 20, the Preobrazhensky District Court arrested him for 20 days under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (the activist appeals the court decision). His case is also connected with the action in Sokolniki. According to media reports, several members of the movement live in the apartment in which Buimov was detained. It was from there that the Ministry of Internal Affairs officers took Zinovkina to the police station. On March 2, the ANS held a rally in support of the arrested Zinovkina and Buimov . During this action, four activists with banners and flares came to the intersection of two streets in the Mayakovskaya metro area and traditionally tried to block the traffic.

• Igor Safonov - On January 28, the Presnensky District Court fined him 100 thousand rubles under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 Code of Administrative Offences. His case is also connected with the action against the demolition of the Nightingale.

Sources

• Based on materials from social networks.
• Case card No. 05-0320/2019 (Osipova) // Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow. 2019. May 23.
• Case card No. 05-0099/2019 (Zaitsev) // Nikulinsky District Court. 2019. March 4.
• Case card No. 05-0096/2019 (Nekrasova) // Preobrazhensky District Court. 2019. February 27.
• Case card No. 05-0092/2019 (Zinovkina) // Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow. 2019. February 26
• Case card No. 05-0078/2019 (Buimov) // Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow. 2019. February 21.
• Case card No. 05-0006/2019 (Osipova) // Presnensky District Court. 2019. January 28.
• Case card No. 05-0010/2019 (Safonov) // Presnensky District Court. 2019. January 28.
• Case card No. 05-0012/2019 (Zaitsev) // Presnensky District Court. 2019. January 28.
• An ex-member of ANS was detained in Tula. They ask for the names of the organizers of the action “Hands off the Russian Kuril Islands” // OVD-Info. 2019. March 5.
• The court fined a participant in the gathering in support of Miftakhov. The consideration of the cases of two activists was postponed // OVD-Info. 2019. March 4.
• Activist of the “Association of Popular Resistance” was fined 15 thousand rubles due to participation in the action // OVD-Info. 2019. February 27.
• For an action blocking a road, a member of the “Association of Popular Resistance” was arrested for 7 days // OVD-Info. 2019. February 26.
• In Moscow, an activist of the “Association of Popular Resistance” was arrested for 20 days // OVD-Info. 2019. February 21.
• Two people detained at a rally against the demolition of the Nightingale cinema were fined 100 thousand rubles // OVD-Info. 2019. February 5.
• A court in Moscow fined two opponents of the demolition of the Nightingale cinema center 10 thousand rubles // OVD-Info. 2019. January 28.