A participant in winter protests who recovered from Covid was fined 100 thousand for a “sanitary matter”

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow imposed a fine of 100 thousand rubles on Dani Akel - he was found guilty of violating sanitary and epidemiological standards for participating in a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, when he was sick with coronavirus. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Anton Taroyants.

The prosecution requested a fine of 200 thousand rubles as punishment. Akel's interests were represented by lawyer from OVD-Info Mikhail Biryukov. During the investigation, the accused was prohibited from certain actions as a preventive measure.

About the fact that Dani Akel is a defendant in the “sanitary case”, April 22. He is the only one who is accused of violating sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code), the rest of the defendants - politicians and public figures - are charged with inciting him (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the use of Part 4 of Article 33 UK).

it became known - Public figures Lyubov Sobol, Nikolai Lyaskin, Oleg Navalny, press secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmysh, head of the Doctors' Alliance Anastasia Vasilyeva, ex-coordinator of Navalny's Moscow headquarters Oleg Stepanov, participant Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina, as well as municipal deputies Lyusa Stein and Dmitry Baranovsky. From municipal deputy Konstantin Jankauskas. charges were dropped - Sanitary case" under Article 236 of the Criminal Code (violation of sanitary and epidemiological standards) was opened after the protests on January 23 in support of Navalny. According to the Moscow authorities - which cannot be verified - the protests involved two dozen people under surveillance by the Social Monitoring system due to infection or contact with coronavirus patients. Charges of inciting violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code with the application of Part 4 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code) were brought against those who, according to the investigation, called for participation in protests. At the same time, according to Moscow authorities, at the end of January and beginning of February the number of new cases of Covid did not grow, but on the contrary significantly declined. data - In connection with Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia. The most massive actions took place in and in. The security forces reacted harshly to the actions: on January 23 they detained, and on January 31 -. On the day the sentence in the Yves Rocher case was changed to a real one, also near the Moscow City Court building, including journalists. In total, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country in the wake of the protests. arrests Saturday January 23 Sunday January 31 more than 4,000 people more than 5,500were detained