The court dismissed the case of Yana Drobnokhod, accused under the “Dada” article. The activist was released

In Novosibirsk, the criminal case of protest participant Yana Drobnokhod, who was accused of “Dadinskaya”, was dropped. The activist was released, said lawyer Dmitry Shitov, who works with OVD-Info.

Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code The press service of the court also provides information about the termination of the case.

published The decision was made by the Central District Court, which imposed a fine of 40 thousand rubles on Drobnokhod as a measure of a criminal law nature.

Shitov said that the court granted Drobnokhod’s petition to terminate the criminal case and impose a court fine, despite the objections of the prosecution.

A participant in protests at the end of January was sentenced to house arrest. Later, investigators decided to tighten the preventive measure against the activist. Having learned about this, on February 15 she went out with a single picket against political persecution. The next day, Drobnohod is in the pre-trial detention center.

initiated a case sent placed The activist was fined several times in connection with various public actions. So, in November 2020, she received two fines of 150 thousand rubles each because of pickets in support of Khabarovsk residents, the court twice found her guilty under the article on repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

Previously, Drobnokhod had alreadybeen awarded at least four fines in the amount of 43 thousand rubles due to actions in support of Sergei Furgal and the residents of Khabarovsk.

appointed The criminal case includes actions on September 26 and January 30 in support of Furgal, a rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny, as well as two Instagram posts in October calling for rallies in support of Furgal.

• Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code punishes for violating the procedure for holding public events if a person, at the time of initiation of the case, has several decisions that have entered into force under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses on relevant violations within six months. The first person convicted under this article was activist Ildar Dadin; after his case, the Constitutional Court initiated cases only if the actions of the alleged violator constituted a threat to society. According to lawyer Shitov, the only danger of Drobnokhod’s actions formulated by the investigation lies in the assumption that she exposed people to the risk of contracting the coronavirus. This is given one line in the case. Everything else that could be classified as “threat” and “danger” is described in general, abstract words like “deliberately,” “knowingly,” and “knowingly.” recommended