Open Russia coordinator was fined for a single picket in support of Ilya Azar

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined Open Russia coordinator Tatyana Usmanova 15,000 rubles for holding a solitary picket. Mikhail Biryukov, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports this.

The court found Usmanova guilty of violating the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). On May 28, she went to a solo picket in support of the arrested journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar.

Earlier in June, the Tverskoy Court returned the case file of Tatyana Usmanova to the police.

• On May 28, Novaya Gazeta journalist and municipal deputy of the Khamovniki district Ilya Azar was arrested for 15 days for picketing in support of Vladimir Vorontsov, the author of the Police Ombudsman telegram channel, and Viktor Nemytov, who had been detained earlier. 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.
• The next day, May 29, municipal deputies and activists went to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow and Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg with the slogans “Picket is not a crime”, “Freedom to Ilya Azar”. Similar pickets were held in different cities. In total, according to OVD-Info, 42 people were detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg , among them both people who came out with posters and those who stood without symbols. at single pickets near the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow; were detained On May 30 , 15 people were also detained at rallies in support of Ilya Azar in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod. on June 1 , 15 people
• On June 5, the Moscow City Court reduced Azar's sentence to 10 days, and two days later he was released.