Irina Kalmykova
Irina Kalmykova, born 1969, Moscow. Charges: Article 212.1, Russian Criminal Code (Repeated violation of the order of organizing assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, marches and…); “The case of Irina Kalmykova”. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, February 4, 2016; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, July 20, 2015.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Entrepreneurs · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 212.1, Russian Criminal Code — Repeated violation of the order of organizing assemblies, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets
Full wording of the charges
Participated in a march on Myasnitskaya Street on 5 December 2014 on the anniversary of protests against the Duma election results; in a rally in support of Nadezhda Savchenko at Lubyanka on 26 January 2015; on Bolotnaya Square on 6 May 2015 on the third anniversary of the 2012 rally that led to the initiation of the Bolotnaya case; in a solitary picket in honour of Savchenko's birthday outside the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention centre on 11 May 2015; in a rally on 26 May in front of the Ministry of Economic Development in support of small businesses. Later it turned out that the event of 11 May was not included in the indictment, but the meeting on 15 January 2015 was mentioned in connection with the verdict in the case of Alexei and Oleg Navalny.
Latest event
February 4, 2016 — preventive measure: arrest in absentia
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted on political grounds — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 4, 2016
- Recognised as persecuted on political grounds — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 20, 2015
Timeline
· Preventive measure: arrest in absentia
· Recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of Irina Kalmykova
Criminal case
The case of Irina Kalmykova
Details and sources
Full summary
On 6 June 2015, police officers came to Kalmykova's mother, who lives in the town of Kogalym, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District, and asked where Kalmykova was; on 8 June, an investigator summoned Kalmykova in connection with the initiation of a criminal case; on 10 June, a preventive measure was chosen against Kalmykova in the form of personal recognizance; the case mentions a solitary picket in honour of Nadezhda Savchenko's birthday outside the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention facility on 11 May 2015, being on Bolotnaya Square on the third anniversary of the 6 May 2012 rally, protest on 26 May outside the Ministry of Economic Development in support of small businesses, and protest in support of Savchenko on Lubyanka on 26 January.
Kalmykova was under a custodial sentence. In January 2016, it became known that she left Russia. On 4 February, the court decided to arrest Kalmykova in absentia and put her on a wanted list; on 31 May, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 212.1, Russian Criminal Code
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