A court in Moscow returned to the police the reports of detained single picketers

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow ruled to return to the police the protocols drawn up against single picketers in connection with the actions on May 28 and June 2 in support of journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest" with reference to the lawyer Mansur Gilmanov.

The police regarded the picket lines as a mass event and drew up protocols against the detainees on violation of the rules for participation in the action. However, the court did not find violations in the actions of the picketers and returned to the police the protocols of Yegor Ilyushkin, Lusine Minasyan, Timur Aisin, Maria Koltsova, Arina Kiseleva, Oleg Khorkov, Elizaveta Loshak, Vitaly Levchenko, Nadezhda Shchetinina, Lilia Koptsova, Aglaya Shatova and Denis, who were detained on June 2 Mishchenko, as well as journalists Mikhail Fishman and Ilya Vasyunin, who were detained on May 28.

“The official did not present a single piece of evidence to the court, indicating that other persons also participated in the said public event,” the rulings of the court published by the “Apology of Protest” state.

• On June 2, people went out on single pickets to the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Petrovka, 38 the day after the death of a Yekaterinburg resident who was suspected of stealing wallpaper. about this in detail . talks Mediazona
• On May 28, Novaya Gazeta journalist and municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district Ilya Azar was arrested for 15 days for a picket in support of Vladimir Vorontsov, the author of the Police Ombudsman telegram channel, and Viktor Nemytov, who was detained earlier for a similar picket. Azar was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the action (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On the same day, journalists and activists went to pickets in support of Ilya Azar. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, 22 people were detained. They drew up protocols on violation of the self-isolation regime and violation of the rules for participation in the action. Two were left overnight before trial at the police departments.
• Earlier, the police qualified single pickets as a “hidden form of a collective public event” and issued lawyers Dmitry Zakhvatov and Daniil Berman detained at single pickets on May 31 with protocols on violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).