Three more Yabloko candidates for Moscow municipal deputies may be removed from the elections
Press Release, 26.08.2022
Photo: Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno, Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova
Candidates for Moscow municipal deputies Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno (the Yakimanka district), Nikolai Kasyan and Tatyana Kasimova (both in the Khamovniki district) were convicted under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, which deprives them of the opportunity to be elected.
Nikolai Kasyan is arrested for five days. Anna Shatunovskaya-Byurno and Tatyana Kasimova were fined 2,000 and 1.500 roubles, respectively.
Kasyan and Kasimova are current municipal deputies, Kasimova is the head of the Khamovniki municipal district.
The candidates will challenge in the Moscow City Court their prosecution under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi symbols of signs, or symbols or signs of extremist organisations”). In the event that the appellate instance upholds the decisions of the district courts, the candidates will be deprived of their right to participate in elections for a year.
It should be noted that on 24 August, the three candidates, as well as Yabloko supporter Maria Volokh, who had previously been removed from registration in the elections in the Tverskoy district, were detained and police drew up administrative protocols of administrative offence against them for “demonstrating extremist symbols”. All the four were left overnight at police stations until trial. Volokh was fined 2,000 roubles this afternoon.
Andrei Morev, head of the Yakimanka district nominated by Yabloko to run in Yakimanka and Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Yabloko, human rights activist Nikolai Kavkazsky nominated by Yabloko to run in Basmanny, and acting Moscow municipal deputies Nodari Khananashvili (Academicheskiy) and Pavel Yarilin (Aeroport) were found guilty under the same article and lost the opportunity to participate in the elections.
To date, the list of Yabloko registered candidates includes 150 representatives of the party in 43 municipal districts of Moscow.
The Moscow municipal elections will be held on 11 September.
Read more about the persecution of Yabloko members after the start of the “special operation”.
Posted: August 26th, 2022 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow Municipal Elections 2022, Regional and Local Elections, Regional and Local Elections 2022, Russia-Ukraine relations, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.