In Samara, a court sentenced a supporter of “Citizens of the USSR” to six years in prison

In Samara, the Central District Military Court sentenced the former head of the Togliatti trade union “Molot” and supporter of the ideas of “Citizens of the USSR” Vyacheslav Shepelev to six years in prison. He himself told OVD-Info about this, information is also on the court’s website.

appeared Shepelev was found guilty under articles on inciting hatred or enmity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), public calls for extremist activity (Article 280 of the Criminal Code), as well as under the article on a terrorist act (Article 205 of the Criminal Code). The defendant's lawyer will appeal the court's decision.

In April 2020, Shepelev OVD-Info reported that three criminal cases were opened against him due to the repost of a video by blogger Alexander Chernykh “To the policemen of the Russian Federation and traitors to the homeland of the USSR.”

“In the video, [blogger] Alexander Chernykh says that today or tomorrow the regime will change, the jurisdiction of the USSR will be restored, the police will be held accountable for what they do. At best, they will end up on trial, and at worst, people will kill them like in the February revolution of 17. For this [I] was charged with Article 280 of the Criminal Code (calls for extremism - OVD-Info). Then Chernykh in this video says that [policemen] “serve the f***ing Kremlin people” - here comes Article 282 of the Criminal Code. And for the word “policemen” - an insult to a representative of the authorities, 319 of the Criminal Code,” explained a supporter of “Citizens of the USSR.”

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In June 2020, the court sent Shepelev for an outpatient psychiatric examination. But the doctors concluded that “under such conditions they cannot” draw a conclusion about the sanity or insanity of the accused and recommended an in-patient examination. A few months later, in December, a supporter of “Citizens of the USSR” was subject to a forced psychiatric examination at the request of the investigator. In February 2021, Shepeleva was sent to the Samara regional psychiatric hospital for 30 days.

appointed placed - “Citizens of the USSR” - a movement uniting fighters for the restoration of the rights of citizens of the USSR. Followers of the organization that the Union continues to exist, and the Russian Federation is a “trading company”. Some of the participants in “Citizens of the USSR” refuse any ties with Russia as a state, for example, they do not sign any documents and notify local authorities of the need to vacate their posts. consider