Moscow, July 17 - The Moscow City Court considered complaints on…
Moscow, July 17 - The Moscow City Court considered complaints on July 15 from Alexander Zimbovskiy, Elena Sidorenkova, Angel Atsatryan, and Vartukh Karapetyan. The Tverskoy District Court had previously found them guilty of disobeying police officers (and imposed administrative arrest: 12 days for Zimbovskiy and 10 days each for the others).
Consensus
- Four individuals were arrested for participating in an unsanctioned protest in the reception area of the Moscow government building on July 9.
- The participants chanted offensive slogans, disrupting the work of the reception area.
- Police arrived and the protesters refused to comply with their orders or go to a police station.
- The Tverской District Court initially imposed administrative arrests (12 days for Zimbovsky, 10 days for others) and fines of 20,000 rubles each for participating in an unsanctioned protest.
- The Moscow City Court reviewed the appeal on July 15 and upheld all penalties without changes.
- All participants considered the punishment too severe and attempted to challenge it.
Points of divergence
- Galina Sedых was fined 4,000 rubles instead of receiving an administrative arrest, while the others received arrests. — interfax
- All five participants were fined for the unsanctioned protest; however, only four are mentioned in the appeal (Zimbovsky, Sidorenkova, Asctryan, Karapetyan), with no mention of Sedых being separately fined. — vesti
Coverage (2 sources)
- Court Did Not Cancel Arrests of Participants in Unauthorized Protest at Moscow Government Building — Интерфакс
- Moscow City Court Confirms Arrests of Protest Participants at Government Reception — Вести
Key entities
- Moscow
- Moscow City Court
- Aleksandr Zimbovskiy
- Elena Sidorkova
- Vartukh Karapetyan
- INTERFAX.RU
- Tversky Court
- Moscow City Court
- Tverskoy District Court