The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay nationalist Dina Garina 30 thousand rubles in compensation for unfounded criminal prosecution. this in his Telegram channel . announced The head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov
For more than three months, Garina was suspected of inciting hatred against employees of the Center for Combating Extremism (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) because of two posts on VKontakte. Later, the investigation decided that the woman’s actions did not contain any signs of a crime under Article 282 of the Criminal Code.
The activist’s lawyer plans to appeal the court’s decision: in her statement of claim, Garina demanded 70 thousand rubles in compensation. Chikov also noted that the investigator did not recognize the woman’s right to rehabilitation, and also did not initially explain to her the procedure for compensation for harm. In addition, the prosecutor did not offer Garina an official apology on behalf of the state. The nationalist's lawyer plans to appeal the court's decision.
In 2018, Dina Garina was finally convicted, but in the case of insulting government officials (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) - the same employees of Center “E”. The woman was sentenced to 180 hours of compulsory labor and released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
- Due to the initiation of a case under Article 282, Dina Garina was for some time on the “list of extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring. The activist told OVD-Info about how this affected her life: “This is a civil death, since no one will hire me. Because they are on the list, they don’t hire their relatives either. The situation is the same with studies. You feel special, different from everyone else.”