Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced Nikolay Daineko, a participant in Mayakovsky’s “anti-mobilization” readings in Moscow’s Triumph Square, to four years in a general-regime colony. This was reported to Russian media in the press service of the court.
Daineko was convicted of incitement to hatred (paragraph “c” of part 2 of article 282 of the Penal Code) and of incitement to anti-state activities (part 3 of article 280.4 of the Penal Code ). The court granted the activist a period requested by the prosecution.
According to investigators, on September 25, 2022, activist Artem Kamardin held a public reading of poems at the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky in Triumfalnaya Square, in which he urged not to receive a subpoena for partial mobilization, not to sign documents upon receipt of summonses, and not to report to military enlistment offices. According to investigators, two other participants in the Mayakovsky readings, Nikolai Daineko and Yegor Shtovba, “supported” Kamardin, “repeated aloud” poems after him and “raised their hands”.
The investigation also finds that the defendants in the case humiliated the dignity of the militiamen who took part in the hostilities in the LPR and the DPR, and called for violence against them.
On September 26, a search was carried out in Kamardin’s apartment. The activist’s lawyer, Leonid Solovyov, said security forces beat Kamardin and raped him with dumbbells, after which they forced him to apologize to the camera for reading poetry. Kamardin’s girlfriend Alexandra Popova, who was in the apartment during the searches, said police kicked her, called her “Nazi scum”, threatened to gang-rape her, had filed a complaint against her for prostitution and planted drugs during a personal search.
On September 28, Kamardin, Daineko and Shtovba were placed under arrest. Daineko’s case was considered separately, as in March 2023 he entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation.
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