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The courts of the Russian Federation received more than 8 thousand protocols to discredit the army
Since the beginning of March 2022, Russian courts received at least 8,055 administrative cases to discredit the Russian army. The data analyzed the Mediazon.
8046 of the found administrative protocols were considered or examined by district courts, nine more garrison military courts.
How many people were persecuted under this article, it is unclear - the police regularly draw up several protocols according to the same article on the same person. For example, on the author of five anti -war posts in social networks, they can draw up a protocol for each post.
In the Pushkinsky District Court of St. Petersburg, Mediazona immediately discovered 15 administrative cases of discrediting against one person, drawn up on one day for 15 different posts. After the second administrative case, for one year, a criminal case under an article on re -discrediting, which provides for up to seven years of the colony, may initiate a criminal case against a person.
- The administrative and criminal articles on the discrediting of the army were introduced into the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code in March 2022, after the start of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. Discrediting Russian courts recognize any anti -war speeches or reports about the participation of Russian troops in war crimes.