The court overturned another fine for Memorial's expedition to the cemetery of the repressed

The Kudymkar City Court in the Perm Territory canceled the fine for Lithuanian citizen Thomas Kukis, who participated in cleaning the cemetery of the repressed in the Perm Territory. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation.

Kukis and four other members of the Memorial expedition were accused of “unauthorized seizure of a forest area” (Article 7.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Each of them was fined 20 thousand rubles.

Earlier, the court dismissed the case and canceled the fine of another member of the expedition, Vladas Ulinskas, for lack of corpus delicti.

• In August, volunteers from Lithuania, together with human rights activists, cleaned up the Polish-Lithuanian cemetery in the forest near the abandoned village of Galyashor. In the 1940s, families of repressed Poles and Lithuanians were exiled to the settlement.
• The expedition members were visited by the police with interrogation. A few days later, two criminal cases were opened - on illegal logging (Article 260 of the Criminal Code) and fictitious registration of foreign citizens (Article 322.2 of the Criminal Code).