The court ordered compensation for the illegal detention of three activists in Novosibirsk
The Central District Court of Novosibirsk satisfied the civil suit of Andrey Kaygorodtsev, Yulia Kostenich and Viktor Poddubny to recognize their detention during the filming of a video about dust as illegal. The court exacted 3,000 rubles in favor of each, OVD-Info* reports, citing lawyer Vasily Dubkov, who helped the activists. Kaygorodtsev, Kostenich, Poddubny, as well as Ivan Frolov and Yuri Izmailov, were detained by security forces on April 17 while filming a video about dust in the city.