The Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the decision on the basis of which the security forces conducted a search of the chairman of the regional branch of Yabloko, Ruslan Zinatullin. “Idel.Realities” talks about this with reference to the politician himself.
reports Thus, the court partially satisfied Zinatullin's complaint, canceling the permission of the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan to conduct a search and sending the case materials for review. The reasons for the decision of the Supreme Court are still unknown.
With a search of Ruslan Zinatullin, as well as a number of Kazan civil activists on March 17. The politician became a witness in the case of inciting mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). Equipment, bank cards and souvenirs were confiscated from him. Before the search began, they began to saw out the activist’s door.
they came “The door started to light up, I opened it, they put me on the floor, handcuffed me behind my back. They insulted me, threatened me, and walked all over me. They shouted that I was a traitor and so on. All the threats, because I was not in a very good position in this situation, consisted in the fact that they promised to lower me. Then they lifted me up, unfastened the handcuffs and began to conduct a search,” Idel.Realii quotes Zinatullin’s story about the day of the search.