A court in St. Petersburg dismissed the cases of three people detained due to a picket against amendments to the Constitution

Judge of the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg Tatyana Lezhakova dismissed the administrative cases of Daniil and Olga Nikityuk, as well as Dmitry Kisel, who were detained during a one-man picket on June 23 against amendments to the Constitution. in his telegram channel This was reported by the "Apology of Protest".

As the press service of the human rights organization clarified, cases under the article on violation of the rules of conduct during the high alert regime introduced (part 1 of article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) were terminated due to the absence of corpus delicti.

"Apology of Protest" specifies that all three - Daniil and Olga Nikityuk and Dmitry Kisel - were standing not far from someone else's single picket. This was the reason for their detention and initiation of administrative cases. In court, those detained at the rally were defended by Varya Mikhailova, a lawyer from the Apology of Protest.

In St. Petersburg on June 23, police detained five people in connection with one-man pickets against amendments to the Constitution. At the police station, they drew up reports on them and released them. On July 5, the court returned protocols to the police to correct mistakes.

• On March 11, the State Duma approved the draft law on amendments to the Constitution, initiated by Vladimir Putin. Before that, the President supported the amendment of Deputy Valentina Tereshkova, who proposed to give the President the opportunity to run for two new terms after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution. Sobyanin called the ban on Putin being elected "a destabilizing factor." The amendments were approved by a nationwide vote.
• According to the CEC, almost 78% of Russians supported the amendments to the Constitution. Sergey Shpilkin, a researcher of Russian election statistics, spoke to the independent media Proekt about possible fraud.