Activist Alexey Minyailo was awarded 150 thousand rubles for illegal prosecution in the “Moscow case”

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay 150 thousand rubles to activist Alexei Minyailo as compensation for illegal criminal prosecution in the “Moscow case,” reports MBKH Media.

Minyailo demanded compensation of 1.5 million rubles. According to the oppositionist, he will “seek payment of the rest of the amount.”

The activist was accused of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). almost two months He spent in a pre-trial detention center.

The defense pointed out that on July 27, 2019, Minyailo did not take part in the protest at all, as he was detained on the approach to Trubnaya Square. In September, Judge Andrei Karpov refused to extend the arrest of the oppositionist, clarifying that the materials of the Minyailo case did not contain signs of “mass riots.”

On the same day, the case against Lyubov Sobol, a former volunteer at the headquarters of an unregistered candidate for Moscow City Duma deputy, was closed .