The “Stop the Beglov” rally was not approved in St. Petersburg

The administration of St. Petersburg did not agree on the "Stop Beglov" rally scheduled for September 27. Kommersant about this on September 21 Alexandra Brusser, the organizer of the rally , told .

According to the authorities, Brusser missed the deadline for filing a notice of the action. According to the law, she had to send a notification no later than 10 days before the proposed rally, but not earlier than 15. The activist did this on September 17, the documents are at the disposal of Kommersant.

Alexandra Brusser intends to appeal the refusal to approve the rally.

18:28 Lawyer Alexander Lokhmutov clarified that formally the refusal to approve is justified: a notice of a public event must be received by a public authority no earlier than the day after which 15 days remain before the day on which the public event is planned, and no later than the day after which there are 10 days left until the day on which the public event is planned (paragraph 6 of the Decree of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of June 26, 2018 N 28 “On some issues that arise with the courts when considering administrative cases and cases of administrative offenses related to the application of legislation on public events).

Thus, in order to meet these deadlines, Alexandra Brousser had to submit a notification no later than September 16th.

• Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov approved another extension of the ban on holding public events, including solo pickets. OVD-Info and Amnesty International have launched a petition against these unjustified restrictions on freedom of assembly.
• Alexandra Brusser was detained at a May Day demonstration in 2019. The activist was charged with an article on violation of the rules for participation in the action and a fine was imposed, later the case was dismissed .