The court awarded 51,500 rubles in compensation to five St. Petersburg activists for illegal detention
The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg fined 51,500 rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the illegal detention of five activists before the May Day march in 2019. This was reported by the lawyer of the "Apology of Protest" Alexander Peredruk. Yulia Karpukhina, Polina Kruglova, Svetlana Nartakhova, Anna Tsymbal and Dara Shchukina were detained shortly before the start of the procession, agreed with the authorities, at the request of “geofighter” Timur Bulatov.