The Perm Regional Court canceled the fine for discrediting the armed forces of the Russian Federation (Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against a local resident, 77-year-old Viktor Gilin. As Kommersant writes, a fragment of the relevant court decision was published by local human rights activist Artem Faizulin.
It is noted that Gilin in December 2022 went to the picket with a double-sided poster and was detained by police officers.
The local edition 59.Ru wrote that the policeman who detained the man wrote in a report that Viktor Gilin, showing the poster and trying to attract public attention, “distorted and discredited the tasks of using the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation outside the territory of the Russian Federation.” With regard to the detainee, a protocol was drawn up on an administrative offense under Art. 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
In turn, the Leninsky District Court imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles.
Gilin appealed the decision to the regional court and ordered a linguistic examination. The experts found that the texts of the poster do not contain statements “in which the actions of the armed forces of the Russian Federation are characterized as criminal”, or statements “expressing the rationale for the need to counter the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.”
Thus, the court came to the conclusion that there is no evidence in the case of the purposeful implementation by the Permyak of actions aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Source: Rosbalt
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