The court fined a picketer with a poster “The climate crisis affects everyone. Absolutely"

On August 19, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow fined Lyubov Samylova, an eco-activist, for 10,000 rubles. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest", referring to the lawyer Fyodor Sirosh.

The court found Samylova guilty under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to a single picket that the girl held on October 25, 2019 on Suvorovskaya Square. Samylova came to the rally with a poster “The climate crisis affects everyone. Absolutely".

• On October 25, 2019, activists of the Fridays for Future climate movement were detained in Moscow . The police decided that the young people were holding an uncoordinated rally, but they applied for picketing. The authorities sent a refusal to the environmental activists, but did not offer an alternative venue, as required by law.
• Fridays for Future is an international environmental movement that advocates for radical changes in the field of ecology and for the reduction of harmful emissions into the environment. The inspirer of the movement is the Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, who held demonstrations in front of the Swedish parliament every Friday instead of school.