Moscow courts considered the cases of protesters at the Tajik Embassy

The Chertanovsky District Court returned to the police 12 protocols drawn up against participants in the rally near the Tajik embassy, ​​which took place on April 2. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance OVD-Info Lidia Golovina.

The interests of the protesters in court were represented by lawyer Denis Eliseev, who cooperates with OVD-Info. The court justified the return to the police by the absence of an interpreter at the time the protocol was drawn up - the detainees are citizens of Tajikistan.

19:23 The Kuntsevsky District Court imposed fines of 10,000 rubles on six detainees near the Tajik embassy, ​​who were held in the Mozhaysky police station for about three days, Vasily Kushnir, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports. All six were found guilty under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). Kushnir also clarified that the police issued fines of 500 rubles to his clients under the article on petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

21:02 The Ostankino District Court fined 10 thousand rubles under the “rally” article (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and 5 thousand rubles under the article on violation of migration legislation (part 3.1 of article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) of two participants in the rally near the embassy Tajikistan, Eva Levenberg, a lawyer from OVD-Info, reports.

The fate of 18 more detainees, whose cases are to be considered by the Ostankino court, is not yet known: the police and the translator persuaded them to refuse the help of human rights activists.

23:46 The Kuntsevsky District Court imposed fines of 10 thousand rubles on eight more participants in the gathering in support of Izzat Amon, OVD-Info lawyer Ekaterina Selezneva reports. The court also found her clients guilty under the article on violation of the rules for participation in the action (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

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• On April 2, a rally was held near the Embassy of Tajikistan in support of human rights activist Izzat Amon, who was expelled from Russia. because of the protest were detained According to OVD-Info, at least 117 people . The detainees were taken to at least ten departments.
• According to eyewitnesses, during the arrests, the police released the protesters who had Russian citizenship, and the citizens of Tajikistan were taken to the police departments. Also, Farhod Odinaev, a member of the support group for compatriots, said that translators provided by the Tajik embassy to the courts could transfer the personal data of the detainees to the government of the republic. The families of some of the detainees were visited by members of the State Security Service of Tajikistan.
• Izzat Amon is the head of the Tojikon Moscow Legal Center, which provides legal and material support to labor migrants. On March 25, authorities stripped Amon of his Russian citizenship and sent him to Tajikistan, where the human rights activist was charged with fraud. Amon's son could not find his father for several days and subsequently found him in a pre-trial detention center, reported . Present Time