The court in Gatchina returned to the police the case files of five activists detained at the “Strategy-18” pickets

On August 26, the Gatchina City Court returned to the police the materials of all cases of five activists detained at Strategy-18 pickets. This was reported by the telegram channel "Peaceful resistance named after Elena Grigoryeva. SPb".

in Gatchina, Leningrad Region were detained On July 18 , six activists of the Strategy-18 , who decided to express solidarity with the Crimean Tatars. Protocols were drawn up against the activists under the article on organizing or holding an uncoordinated public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and on disobedience to a police officer (article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Five of them spent the night at the police station, and the sixth, Vladislav Shipitsyn, was suspected of using non-hazardous violence against a government official (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code). now He is under a pledge to appear.

The court did not consider the cases of Olga Smirnova, Asan Mumdzhi, Ilyas Eshref, Tatyana Sichkareva, Dmitry Negodin on the merits, since the police executed the documents in violation of the current legislation.

Similarly, the protocol under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which was drawn up against Shipitsyn, has already been returned to the Gatchina Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs four times for the same and other reasons, writes Peaceful Resistance.

The court considered that “the protocol on the administrative offense was drawn up in violation of the right to defense, given that the case file contains a petition <...> for admission to participation in the proceedings on the case of an administrative offense for a defense counsel.

At the same time, the arguments of the Deputy Chief of Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Gatchinsky District of the Leningrad Region <...> that the defense lawyer did not provide a power of attorney drawn up in accordance with the law, contradict the requirements of the current legislation, ”the court ruling is quoted in the telegram channel.

• "Strategy-18" is an indefinite protest action announced in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The name is associated with a memorable date: on May 18, 1944, the deportation of Tatar families began in the Crimea, during which many died before reaching their places of exile.