The court denied compensation for moral damage to a protester beaten at a rally in support of Furgal

The Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur rejected the claim for compensation for moral damages to protest participant Evgeny Dilman, who was beaten by security forces at a rally in support of Sergei Furgal. Evgeniy’s mother Svetlana Dilman reported this to OVD-Info.

In July 2020, Evgeniy, who was not yet eighteen years old at the time, participated with his mother in a rally in support of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal. During the protest, the police knocked the young man to the ground and beat him using chokeholds. After being taken to the police station, Evgeniy, who suffers from bronchial asthma, had to call an ambulance, and marks from the chokeholds remained on his neck for several days after the incident.

In March 2021, the city's Central District Court rejected Dilman's claim for unlawful use of physical force and special equipment against a minor - despite the video recording of the incident.

• Since the summer of 2020, protests have been taking place in the Khabarovsk Territory and other regions of Russia demanding an end to the persecution of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal: he is now in custody . Until approximately July 18, the police did not interfere with the protests, but after that a series of arrests and trials began. Criminal cases were opened against several participants in the protests in support of Furgal. Three of them have already been stopped , including the case under the “Dada” article . In another case, Novosibirsk activist Yana Drobnokhod was given a court fine , and the case was dropped.