The Investigative Committee dropped the case under the “Dada” article against the Kaliningrad activist

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Kaliningrad Region dropped the case of repeated violations of the rules of rallies (212.1 of the Criminal Code) against local activist Evgenia Fedulova. The girl’s lawyer, Maria Bontser, told OVD-Info about this.

Fedulova was detained and taken to the Investigative Committee in August 2021. The case under the “Dada” article was opened against her for two pickets (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), which took place in August 2020, and two rallies in support of Alexei Navalny, which took place in January and April 2021. For pickets, she was twice sentenced to 20 hours of compulsory labor, and in January she was arrested for six days under the article of repeated violation of the rules of participation in a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The April action became the reason for initiating a criminal case. The court did not send the activist to a pre-trial detention center, considering that the investigation did not provide enough evidence that she could escape.

In February, the Third Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction sent one of Fedulova’s administrative cases for retrial. On September 6, the Kaliningrad Regional Court overturned the district court's ruling in this case.