In St. Petersburg, the plaintiffs were not allowed at the court session on disputing restrictions in connection with pandemia

Employees of the St. Petersburg City Court refused to skip plaintiffs that dispute the restrictions that the authorities of St. Petersburg in connection with the Pandemia of Coronavirus. This was reported in her telegram channel “Team 29”, one of the Trudy people, Alexander Kozichev, also confirmed the information in a conversation with the OVD-Info.

According to “team 29”, only representatives missed the meeting. Lawyers filed a petition for the admission of all the plaintiffs for the meeting in the process, but the court refused this request. According to Kozicheva, the plaintiffs in court said that they were not participants in the process.

Representatives of the plaintiffs also asked the court to ensure a video broadcast of the meeting, but the court refused to satisfy this application: allowed only to shoot a court decision.

In total, eight plaintiffs were not allowed to the meeting. Only their representatives and one of the plaintiffs, the coordinator of the Vesna movement Bogdan Litvin, managed to go through.

• The plaintiffs dispute the restrictions introduced within the framework of the “high readiness mode”. They believe that under the regime of a threat of emergency, their rights cannot be limited. The authorities, in their opinion, have the right to introduce such restrictions only with the introduction of an emergency or emergency that impose financial obligations to support citizens.