In St. Petersburg, judge of the Petrograd District Court Elena Medvedeva fined Vasily Kunin, Sergei Kuzin and Larisa Kucherova, participants in the Sixth Memorial Day in memory of Boris Nemtsov. About this in my “Apology of Protest.”
Telegram channel reports The court imposed a fine of 10 thousand rubles on all three participants. They were found guilty under the article on violating the rules of participation in a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).
According to law enforcement officers, Kunin, Kuzin and Kucherova participated in an uncoordinated action. At the same time, the organizers managed to agree on the action.
wrote - According to the same article, the police on May 21 filed a report on Pavel Chuprunov, one of the participants in the action in memory of Nemtsov in St. Petersburg. The police decided that Chuprunov had no right to use a megaphone during the rally. amounted to - on February 29, rallies in memory of Boris Nemtsov were held in 31 cities of Russia, in which 13 people attended. In St. Petersburg, during a coordinated march in which about 1,500 people took part, the police detained 8 protesters. The security forces explained their actions either by a complaint about an offense, without explaining the details, or by the inconsistency of the poster with the theme of the event. detained