In Yaroslavl, the case of inciting hostility towards police officers was dropped

In Yaroslavl, the investigation terminated the criminal case of civil activist Vitaliy Dryzhenko on inciting hostility towards police officers (paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) due to the absence of corpus delicti. This is reported by the project "Network Freedoms" with reference to the lawyer Stanislav Spivak.

The case was opened because of the videos posted on YouTube and posts on VKontakte. In them, according to the investigation, the activist called for the overthrow of the constitutional order and the use of violence against employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In April, the Zavolzhsky District Court returned the activist's case to the prosecutor's office. “Violence and the threat of its use must be real, not virtual,” the judge said in the ruling.

Dryzhenko is also charged with public calls to carry out extremist activities (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). The criminal case with the indictment was sent to the prosecutor.

• Vitaly Dryzhenko was arrested on July 29, 2020. Prior to this, the security forces came to his house without a search warrant, then they summoned him for interrogations. In September, the activist was sent to a punishment cell.
• Vitaly Dryzhenko is a civil activist from Yaroslavl. He was a follower of Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich, fought against drug use and pedophilia in the city. In 2015, he was sentenced to a year in a colony-settlement under articles on beatings (Article 116 of the Criminal Code), illegal entry into a dwelling (Article 139 of the Criminal Code), incitement of hatred (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and incitement to violence (Art. 2 article 280 of the Criminal Code).