Mikhail Benyash was deprived of a lawyer status

The Ministry of Justice recommended that Benyash deprive the lawyer status because of his publications, which "discredit public service, as well as employees of the executive authorities."

“If the truth, said by a lawyer, is the basis for depriving his status, well, approx. To be in this way, ”Benyash himself commented on this decision earlier. According to him, we are talking, in particular, about the post, which refers to the accelerated aging of bribe takers .

In October 2022, Benyash was included in the list of individuals.

In 2018, Benyash started a case of violence against a police officer. As the OVD-Info recalls , Benyasha was beaten by police officers when he went to the detainees at the rally against raising the retirement age. According to investigators, during the detention, the lawyer bit a police officer and hit the other several times in the face. Then Benyash was found guilty and fined 30 thousand rubles.