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A court in Arkhangelsk fined a pensioner 30 thousand rubles for a post on VKontakte about judges

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk fined pensioner Elena Makarova 30,000 rubles for writing comments on VKontakte about judges and policemen. this on his telegram channel . announced Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group,

A local resident was found guilty under part 3 of article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of information expressing a disrespectful attitude towards the authorities). The comment, for which she was fined, was left by the woman in the group “Pomorye is not a garbage dump”, which publishes information about protests against the construction of a landfill at Shies station.

“Is there not a single decent policeman or judge in the city? What is this, repressions of the 37th year? What makes people turn into scum? ”, - cites the publication of a pensioner. Mediazona

Makarova's comment refers to the decision of the courts on those detained during the April 7 protests against the landfill. Chikov writes that the court did not establish any mitigating circumstances, and the imposed fine exceeds Makarova's pension by three times.

Fixed: Initially, we incorrectly quoted the text that Makarova posted in the comments.

Earlier, the E center initiated at least five administrative cases of disrespect for the authorities due to comments in the Pomorie is not a garbage dump group on VKontakte and another case for comments in other groups of the same social network. According to the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, at least 11 administrative cases have been opened under the article on disrespect for the authorities.
The Oktyabrsky court had previously dismissed the case under a similar article due to a comment in the “Pomorye is not a garbage dump” group. The case of local resident Alexander Pushkin was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.
In March, Vladimir Putin signed a law on disrespect for the authorities. For the first offense under this law, a fine of 30 to 100 thousand rubles is provided.