In the suburbs, the court fined Dmitry Gudkov for a rally at which he was not in court in the case of another rally

The Kolomensky city court fined Dmitry Gudkov for 15 thousand rubles of opposition policy for violating the rules of the rally. Gudkov himself wrote about this in the Twitter microblog .

“The Kolomensky court had just fined me for 15 thousand for violating the rally rules. This is my second protocol over the past six months. The third is a criminal case,” said Dmitry Gudkov, who is the chairman of the Party of Change .

The court found Gudkov guilty of organizing a rally in December 2018, when the court considered the previous administrative case in relation to the politician.

Gudkov said that at that time he was in the court building, so "he could not organize a rally from the outside."

"Let me remind you the essence: the first fine was for shooting the video about the landfill under construction. The indignation of the people participating in the shooting was called a rally. People came to that court, they were not allowed - and this became the second" rally ". The court ignored the testimony of witnesses - although who doubted this? His building, which means, could not organize a rally from the outside .

The politician explained that he and his supporters "tried to coordinate the rally on April 14 in Kolomna," but the authorities "sent the opposition to the village. “The same story is repeated now, from May 19,” Gudkov concluded.

Born in Kolomna, Dmitry Gudkov, opens against the construction of a garbage training ground in the village of Myachkovo in the Kolomensky district of the Moscow Region, not far from which his own cottage is located, writes The Insider .

Gudkov’s like -minded people are strict political pressure. So, the activist Vyacheslav Egorov was brought to criminal liability for the "Dadinskaya" article. In 2018, he was a member of the initiative group "No Landming of Kolomna", and he was attracted three times under Art. 20.2 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picket) within six months. This made it possible to institute criminal proceedings against him under Art. 212.1 (repeated violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession or picket): the reason for this was a post on social networks, where Yegorov called everyone to come to the open meeting of the Kolomensky City Court on December 13, 2018, where the politicians Dmitry and Gennady Gudkovs were to be judged under Art. 20.2 Administrative Code of the Russian Federation. On February 2, Egorov was sent under house arrest . He faces a five -year period of imprisonment.

According to human rights activists, Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation violates the fundamental principles of law and is aimed at restricting freedom of assembly, contrary to Art. 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, Art. 11 of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, as well as the positions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Moreover, the initiation of a criminal case contradicts the position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, since the actions of Egorov did not result in causing harm to health, property, environment, public order or safety, other constitutionally protected values ​​and did not threaten them.

According to human rights activists, specific accusations of violations of the organization and public shares are also far -fetched, since decisions on appropriate administrative offenses were obviously biased and were issued with flagrant violations of the law. Egorov himself and his lawyer Maria Aismont in the spring and summer of 2018 announced that the head of the Kolomensky police Zverev more than once threatened Egorov by deprivation of liberty if he "did not behave the way they want."

The human rights center "Memorial" declared Egorov political prisoners . "We consider Vyacheslav Egorov to a political prisoner. Activist is pursued for political reasons solely because of his socio-political position and in connection with the non-violent implementation of freedom of expression and information, as well as freedom of peaceful assembly guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the International Pact on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, violation of the right to fair trial, ”the center said.

Before Egorov’s case, the only convicted person under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code remained oppositionist Ildar Dadin. Dmitry Gudkov noted that Article 212.1 is used "only in important political cases." In his opinion, the authorities arranged a “intimidation action” in Kolomna in order to hide the failure of reforms with garbage in the suburbs from public publicity, "where, under this pretext, the old landfills are corny to other places."

Egorov himself also considers the criminal case politically motivated. According to him, he was repeatedly threatened with criminal liability. On January 31, 14 activists of the movement "did not have a landfill in Kolomna" were searches with the participation of the FSB.