The St. Petersburg court reduced the fine for a participant in the “March of Mother’s Wrath” to 150 thousand rubles

The city court of St. Petersburg commuted the punishment for activist Maria Kozhevatova and imposed a fine of 150,000 rubles for participating in the March of Maternal Wrath in February 2019. Kozhevatova herself told about this to OVD-Info.

In February 2019, the court found Kozhevatova guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and imposed a fine of 250 thousand rubles.

The activist was detained on February 10 at a solidarity rally with Open Russia member Anastasia Shevchenko and other activists persecuted for political reasons. Kozhevatova participated in the action with a poster “Putin is our everything? War. Robbery. Banditry. Crimes against humanity."

• In total, solidarity actions were held in 14 cities of Russia. They detained 8 people. OVD-Info conducted an online broadcast of what was happening.
• Anastasia Shevchenko was a member of the federal council of Open Russia. In January 2019, a criminal case was opened against her for “carrying out the activities of an organization recognized as undesirable on the territory of Russia” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code), the first criminal case under this article. At the end of January 2019, she was placed under house arrest.
• Shevchenko's criminal case is based on two administrative offenses under the article on "undesirable organization" (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The first one is about participation as a coordinator in political debates in Taganrog, the second one is for the publication of the announcement of the lecture “Postcards”. As stated in the case file, Shevchenko allegedly did not stop her activities out of criminal intent, at a meeting of “Postcards” she called on activists to infiltrate protest groups, offering them legal assistance, and then at the rally “she showed symbols from the protest action“ Tired of it ””.
• In April 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office declared undesirable several organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, registered in the UK and the USA. Despite the fact that the Russian movement was not banned, its participants continued to be persecuted. On March 30, 2019, Open Russia declared self-liquidation for security reasons.