The Moscow City Court upheld the fines of the participants in the “Demonstration of the Seven”, but did not notify them of the meeting

The Moscow City Court upheld the fines of participants in the rally in memory of the "Demonstration of the Seven" by human rights activist Sergei Sharov-Delaunay and politician Leonid Gozman, without notifying them of the date of the meeting. Sharov-Delaunay told OVD-Info about this.

Earlier, the Tverskoy District Court fined them 20 thousand rubles, finding them guilty of violating the rules for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

“In our case with Lenya, we filed appeals on time, and now it turned out that the Moscow City Court considered them without our participation. We gave both phone numbers, and e-mail, and the address. In the files there is a printout from the Russian Post about how the notification was sent to us, but neither I nor Lenya received it and did not sign it. Mosgor, who used to notify like a bayonet (it happened that they called three times!), went over to partisanism, ”said the human rights activist.

• On August 25, participants in the “Demonstration of the Seven” memorial action were detained on Red Square. The artist Anna Krasovitskaya wrote on her Facebook page that she was detained for the “Freedom to Sentsov” poster. In total, about 50 people took part in the meeting dedicated to the memory of the 1968 demonstration.
• The action of Soviet dissidents, known as the "Demonstration of the Seven" took place on August 25, 1968, when eight people, including Krasovitskaya's grandmother Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Sharov-Delaunay's cousin Vadim Delone, unfurled posters with slogans against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia at Lobnoye Mesto. The demonstrators were detained for several minutes and beaten by police and KGB officers. Five participants of the action were sentenced to various terms and links. Natalya Gorbanevskaya and Viktor Fainberg were declared insane and sent to psychiatric hospitals for compulsory treatment. One of the detainees, Tatyana Baeva, was persuaded to tell the police that she was on the square by accident, after which she was released.