The court overturned the fine of a TJournal journalist due to his arrest at the rally on January 31 in St. Petersburg

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned a fine of 10 thousand rubles to TJournal editor Artem Mazanov, who was detained at the rally on January 31. about this . TJournal told Varvara Mikhailova, lawyer for “Apology of Protest,”

“In general, we were waiting for such a decision; there are many errors in my case that the court of first instance ignored,” Mazanov noted.

On February 8, he was found guilty of participating in a mass simultaneous presence of people in a public place, which resulted in a violation of sanitary standards (Part 1 of Article 20.2.2 of the Administrative Code). Mazanov was at the rally as a journalist.