The court in Moscow fined two participants in single pickets in support of other detained picketers

The judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow Elena Bulgakova fined Leonid Drakin and Alexander Poychev for 10 thousand rubles, two detained on single pickets in support of the “Ombudsman of the Police” by Vladimir Vorontsov, as well as in support of the detainees on shares in his support. This was told by the OTD-Info by the civil activist Leonid Drakin, and also reports Mediazona.

Drakkina was fined under an article on violation of the rules of participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a single picket on May 30 in support of the journalist Ilya Azar detained for the same picket. The court decided that the civil activist participated in a hidden form of a mass public event, held on one topic.

The Plenum of the Supreme Court in 2018 explained that several single pickets can be recognized as one action, but he listed a number of conditions that must be established during the consideration of the case.

According to the Armed Forces, single pickets can be considered a mass event if the pickets:

• with sufficient obviousness are united by the unity of goals and the general organization;
• They are carried out simultaneously and territorially gravitated to each other;
• Their participants use associatively recognizable or identical visual agents and put forward general requirements and calls.

“Firstly, there were no pickets nearby. Secondly, the previous single picket was an hour and a half before me. The community of goals is difficult to see, especially since the previous picket was dedicated to Vladimir Vorontsov <...>, while I stood [in the picket] for the freedom of Ilya Azar, ”said Drakin.

A civilian activist, together with a lawyer from the OVD-info, Alexander Lokhmutov, stated about 10 petitions. Including the call of the police who detained Dragkin, and to watch a video of the member of a single picket. The court rejected all the petitions.

The leading radio station "Echo of Moscow" Alexander Poyshchev was fined due to the campaign on May 28, the OTD-info said in the "protest apology". The court found him guilty under the same article on violation of the rules of participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Then he, along with another leading Echo of Moscow, was detained twice, despite the presence of a press cortic. Journalists did not participate in pickets that day.

September 22, 15:13 Mosgorsud resolved a decision on a fine to civil activist Leonid Drakin. His interests in court were defended by a lawyer from the ATS-info Alexander Lokhmutov.

• On May 28, the journalist of Novaya Gazeta and the municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district arrested for 15 days for a picket in support of the author of the Ombudsman of the Police. He 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 in support of Ilya Azar. InMoscow and St. Petersburg, 22 people were detained.
• The next day, May 29, municipal deputies and activists went to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow and to the living room in St. Petersburg with the slogans “Picket Non -Crime”, “Freedom Ilya Azar”. Similar pickets have passed in different cities. In total, according to the ATS-Info, in Moscow and St. Petersburg 42 people were detained , among them both people who came out with posters and stood without symbols. On May 30, the shares continued. The security forces detained 15 participants in single pickets.
• The Ombudsman of the Police is originally the VKontakte group, created by Vladimir Vorontsov, when he worked in the police and the EC center, then the pages appeared in other social networks. The public covers information about violation of the rights of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and criticism of the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In early May, they came to Vorontsov with a search, after which they detained. He was charged under an article on extortion, on a large scale, committed by a group of persons (paragraphs “a” and “g” of part 2 of article 163 of the Criminal Code), the court has detained him.