The state prosecution asks to appoint Oleg Navalny a year of probation in the case of incitement to violation of sanitary standards at winter rallies in support of his brother
Oleg Navalny (left)
The prosecutor demanded that Oleg Navalny, the brother of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, be given a suspended sentence in the so-called sanitary case, the Preobrazhensky court told RBC.
“The state prosecutor asked to appoint Navalny a sentence of one year of imprisonment on probation for three years,” the press service said.
Oleg Navalny is charged with incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules (Part 4 of Article 33 and Part 1 of Article 236 of the Criminal Code) in connection with protest actions in support of his brother, which took place in Moscow in January.
Navalny was under house arrest, but in April the court softened his preventive measure to ban certain actions. He is forbidden to leave his place of residence from 20: 00 to 6: 00, to communicate with other persons involved in the case, to use any means of communication on the Internet for circumstances related to the investigation of the case.
Eight more people are being held in the “sanitary case”: a former lawyer of the Anti-Corruption Fund (recognized as a foreign agent, an extremist organization and banned in Russia) Lyubov Sobol, Alexey Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh, supporters of the FBK(recognized as a foreign agent, an extremist organization and banned in Russia) Nikolai Lyaskin, Anastasia Vasilyeva and Oleg Stepanov, municipal deputies Dmitry Baranovsky and Lucy Stein and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina. Another person involved was the municipal deputy Konstantin Yankauskas, but in July the Investigative Committee dropped the charges against him.
On August 3, the court handed down a sentence against Sobol: she was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom. She is forbidden to leave the house from 22: 00 to 6: 00, to participate in mass actions and to travel outside of Moscow and the region.
The day before, a 22-year-old resident of Moscow, Dani Akel, received a fine of 100 thousand rubles.in the case of violation of sanitary standards at an uncoordinated rally. He was charged not with inciting a violation of epidemiological norms, but with the violation itself. The rest of the defendants-the oppositionists-published information about the upcoming actions in social networks and thereby, according to the Investigative Committee, created a “threat of mass illness of people”.
Uncoordinated actions in support of Alexey Navalny were held in Russian cities in late January and early February;according to human rights activists from OVD-Info, thousands of people were detained. The protests led to the initiation of about a hundred criminal cases, most of them are being investigated under the article on the use of violence againsta representative of the government. There are also cases of violation of sanitary standards, calls for mass riots, blocking of transport infrastructure facilities and involvement of minors in rallies. Several people received real and suspended sentences.
RBC on YouTube Live broadcasts, videos and recordings of broadcasts on our YouTube channel