The court fined a participant in the gathering in support of the anarchist Azat Miftakhov 20 thousand rubles

The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow fined civil activist Konstantin Kotov, who was detained at a gathering in support of anarchist Azat Miftakhov, 20 thousand rubles. Alla Frolova, coordinator of legal assistance of the project, spoke about this.

OVD-Info In court, Kotov’s interests were represented by defense attorneys: Oleg Elanchik and Maria Eismont.

OVD-InfoAktivist was found guilty of violating the rules of participation in a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Afterwards, at the gathering on March 2, Kotov was charged with repeated violation of the rules of participation in the action (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Under this part of the article, he was threatened with arrest for up to thirty days or a fine of up to three hundred thousand rubles. According to Elanchik, the court managed to change part of the article from the eighth to the fifth, which does not provide for arrest, and the maximum punishment is a fine of 20 thousand rubles. This is why it happened. In the protocol on repeated violation of the rules of the action (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), which was drawn up against Kotov at the police department at Moscow State University, it was mentioned that the activist had already been detained earlier and then a protocol was drawn up, also under the eighth part of this article. Meanwhile, according to the law, a protocol on a repeated violation can be drawn up if there is already a court decision that has entered into force on an offense under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences, but only in parts from to 6.1. Due to the fact that there was such a violation in the protocol, Kotov’s charges were reclassified from part to . At a gathering in support of Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov on March 2, three activists. They have been in the police department at Moscow State University for more than two days, which is contrary to the law.

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Nikita Zaitsev was detained for 15 thousand rubles, Dmitry Ivanov received a similar fine. Both were found guilty of violating the rules of participation in the rally (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

fined - Azat Miftakhov is an anarchist, a graduate student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow State University, who was arrested for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). The case was opened on the night of January 31, 2018, when unknown persons broke a window in the United Russia office in Khovrino and threw a smoke bomb inside. in the case because of- Miftakhov was detained on February 1, later he ​ to the lawyer about torture with a screwdriver. For the next 11 days he was detained under various pretexts. talked about what you need to know about Miftakhov, and published developments in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office. told about the extension of the Department of Internal Affairs-Info-detailed detention chronology