Valery Dzyuba
- Criminal Code
- Article 119 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 330 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Region
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
Case summary
Resident of the Arkhangelsk Region, took part in action against the construction of a landfill at Shies station that would be used to import rubbish from Moscow to the region. A case of forcible assertion of the law (i.e. self-rule) was brought against him and three other people: they were accused of attacking an excavator operator at the protest camp. Dzyuba was also accused of threatening to harm his health. The activist's associates reported that Kozlov, the alleged victim in the case, "destroyed the activists' caravan with a bucket, thus injuring [environmentalist] Vladimir Kogut, and then, waving the bucket from side to side to crowd people, he cleared the way out for himself". On the 30th of June 2020, Dzyuba was acquitted.
Others charged under Article 119 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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