In Arkhangelsk, a pensioner was fined under the article of disrespect for authorities for a comment about judges on social networks

The Oktyabrsky Court of Arkhangelsk fined pensioner Elena Makarova 30,000 rubles for commenting on the judges in the public page “Pomorie is not a garbage dump” on VKontakte. This was announced by the head of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Pavel Chikov.

She was found guilty of contempt of authority under Part 3 of Art. 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. “Judge Yarmolyuk did not establish any mitigating circumstances and imposed a fine of 30,000 rubles on the pensioner. This is her pension for three months,” Chikov said.

The defense insisted that Makarova did not want to offend anyone with her comment, but only expressed her position, exercising the right to freedom of speech. “She wanted to express her indignation at the current situation with this comment,” the documents say.

The claims of the authorities were caused by Makarova's comment after a rally against the construction of a landfill at the Shies station: “Is there really not a single decent policeman or judge in the city? What is this, repressions of the 37th year? What makes people turn into scum?”

30 thousand rubles was previously fined For a comment about the judges , another resident of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Pushkin, . Later, the administrative case against him was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.