A resident of Novosibirsk was fined for agreeing to “hold a poster”

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk found local resident Ekaterina Kokusheva guilty under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in the wake of the action of solidarity with the Khabarovsk Territory, which took place on July 18. This is reported by the portal "Sibkrai".

Kokusheva was fined 5,000 rubles.

“A woman offered me to hold a poster, I agreed. I didn't shout any slogans. There was a woman with a loudspeaker, but I practically didn’t hear her, because cars were honking nearby and it was very noisy, ”the protester said at the trial.

• On July 18 and 25, solo pickets and a walk around the city took place in Novosibirsk in order to express support for the residents of the Khabarovsk Territory, who are protesting against the arrest of their elected governor, Sergei Furgal.
• The current governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, was detained on July 9 by FSB officers on suspicion of involvement in a number of contract killings. He was taken to Moscow, where, by decision of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow, he was placed in custody until September 9. On July 20, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of Furgal from the post of governor and appointed Mikhail Degtyarev, Furgal's fellow party member in the LDPR, to this post, reported . Mediazona
• Since July 11, residents of the Khabarovsk Territory have been holding rallies in support of Sergei Furgal, demanding a public trial in Khabarovsk. The procession on July 11 through the streets of the capital of the region to the government building, according to various estimates, gathered from 5 to 35 thousand people. The police did not interfere with the protesters, there were no arrests.