The court extended the house arrest of Kolomna activist Yegorov, accused under the “Dada article”

The Kolomna City Court extended until May 25 the house arrest of Vyacheslav Egorov, a member of the “No Dump in Kolomna” movement, accused of repeated violations of the rules of rallies (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code). A participant reports this from the courtroom.

OVD-InfoJudge Sineva agreed with the investigator’s arguments that Egorov “would be able to influence witnesses, destroy evidence and continue criminal activities,” so she did not change the preventive measure. The judge also banned the activist from walking.

At the meeting, Olga Mirzaeva, Yegorov’s wife, spoke about how house arrest works: children do not have access to the Internet, and a family of six lives off the pension of the defendant’s mother, which amounts to 15 thousand rubles a month. The judge did not take these arguments into account because at the last meeting the relatives agreed to Egorov’s house arrest.

The activist's lawyer, Maria Eismont, emphasized that the investigation is not conducting any investigations. The judge did not take this point into account, and also stated that the Constitutional Court on the application of Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code does not relate to the essence of today's meeting. In 2017, the Constitutional Court ruled that this article should only be applied if the “violation” charged to a person poses a danger to society.

resolution - A criminal case was opened against Egorov on the basis of four administrative cases under the article on violation of the rules of the action (20.2 of the Administrative Code). The activist was found guilty of three of them. Materials of the fourth - about the organization of the action on Yandex. Dzene” - the police handed it over to the investigation to initiate a criminal case. because of the article - In the article, Egorov called on residents to come to the case of politicians Dmitry and Gennady Gudkov on December 13. That day, not everyone who came made it into the small hall; some waited outside the courthouse. The police thought it was a rally, and Yegorova. the meeting was delayed