The court sentenced the defendant in the “palace case” Andrei Klimashev to five and a half years in prison

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced the defendant in the “palace case,” Andrei Klimashev, to five and a half years in prison. This was reported by Klimashev’s lawyer from OVD-Info, Maxim Ovchinnikov.

Klimashev will serve his sentence in a general regime colony. At the same meeting, the prosecutor requested 6 years of imprisonment for the defendant, based on the partial addition of terms for three episodes of the case.

25-year-old Klimashev is accused of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code) during the January protests in support of Alexei Navalny in 2021. According to investigators, the young man kicked one policeman and sprayed a gas canister at two others.

He was detained on March 30, 2022. Initially, Klimashev was interrogated as a witness in a similar case, after which the case was already against him.

In April 2022, Klimashev was incarcerated in a pre-trial detention center. His case goes to court at the end of November.

placed received - After the politician Alexei Navalny in January 2021, a series of protests took place throughout Russia, mass protests took place on, on and on February 2 (on the day of Navalny’s suspended sentence for real). The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23 they detained , on January 31 - , on February 2 - . In connection with the action on April 21, at least 363 of them were detained on surveillance cameras. arrests Saturday January 23 Sunday January 31 replacements more than 4,000 people more than 5,500 more than 1,400 people more than 2,200 people - In connection with protests in support of Alexei Navalny in 2021, criminal cases were opened across the country against more than 180 people. The totality of these cases is called because one of the catalysts for the protests was the FBK investigative film “.” Most of the defendants are accused of using violence against government officials that is not dangerous to life and health (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

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