A participant in the protests on January 31 was limited in the period of familiarization with the case materials

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg limited until August 5 the period for familiarization with the case materials to Eldar Garipov, a participant in the action on January 31. This was announced by his lawyer Igor Skachko, who cooperates with OVD-Info.

On August 10, Garipov's detention limit expires. The lawyer believes that the period of familiarization with the case was limited in order to have time to transfer the documents to the prosecutor's office and once again extend the preventive measure.

Garipov is accused of using non-life-threatening violence against a member of the National Guard (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during the January 31 protests. According to investigators, he resisted detention and injured one of the law enforcers.

During the action, law enforcement officers severely detained Garipov - immediately after this, the young man was hospitalized. Paramedics who gave him first aid reported the injuries to the police. Then a district police officer came to the young man's house and promised to hand over the materials about the beating to the Investigative Committee. However, after this conversation, a case was opened against the rally participant himself.

Garipov insists that he did not use violence against government officials. The activist believes that the security forces slandered him in order to avoid being held liable for abuse of power.

In June, Prisoners 212 reported that Garipov had been transferred to a psychiatric hospital for a month to conduct a psychological and psychiatric examination as part of a criminal case.

• In connection with the actions in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place from January 23 to February 2, at least 90 criminal cases were opened across the country. The protesters were accused not only of using violence against the security forces (Article 318 of the Criminal Code), but also of violating sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code), involving minors in illegal activities (Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code), road closures (Article 267 of the Criminal Code).