Ilya Gushchin
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 2 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2014-08-17
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
- Address for letters
- 127055, г. Москва, ул. Новослободская д. 45, ФКУ СИЗО-2 УФСИН России по г. Москве ("Бутырка"), Гущин Илья Владимирович, 1988 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 29 December 2015
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Case summary
Ilya Gushchin is a member of the National Democratic Party (at the time of detention). On 6 May 2012, he was detained during the dispersal of a rally on Bolotnaya Square, on 8 May he was sentenced to one day of administrative arrest, which he has already served. On 6 February 2013, he was detained in a criminal case, and on 7 February he was charged with participation in the mass riots that allegedly took place on Bolotnaya Square, and with having grabbed and pushed policeman Sergei Antonov from behind. Gushchin initially pleaded guilty to using violence against Antonov, but later retracted his confession. On 18 August 2014, the court sentenced him to two and a half years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. He was released on 5 August 2015
Others charged under Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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