The Moscow City Court overturned the decision to impose a fine of 400,000 rubles on the Public Verdict fund under the law on foreign agents. The case was sent back for retrial. This is reported by the "Public Verdict" itself.

The decision to find the foundation guilty of non-compliance with the law on foreign agents (part 2 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was canceled, according to lawyers, due to the absence of a disk in the case file, which Roskomnadzor referred to as the main evidence. “Why he was not included in the case file is a mystery shrouded in darkness,” says Alexei Laptev, the foundation’s lawyer.

On March 2, Public Verdict was fined for not labeling a foreign agent in one of the videos on their YouTube channel. The Foundation claims that such marking is under each of their videos.

In 2012, the Public Verdict human rights foundation was included in the Russian register of foreign agents. online Thanks to the employees of the foundation, records of torture of prisoners in correctional colony No. 1 of the Yaroslavl region were published . After that, 15 former employees of the colony were taken into custody.
In October 2019, the Tverskoy Court fined the Public Verdict and its head for a total of 650,000 rubles under the same law. An unknown citizen complained about human rights activists. On February 20, 2020, the Moscow City Court approved this decision.

The Moscow City Court overturned the 400 thousand ruble fine to the “Public Verdict”