Leonid Kovyazin
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a prisoner of conscienceby Amnesty International, 16 November 2016
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Case summary
Freelance correspondent for the newspaper Vyatsky Observer. 5 September 2012, detained in Kirov, transported to Moscow; accused of participation in the mass riots on Bolotnaya Square on 6 May 2012 - he was moving bio-toilets. He was kept at the pre-trial detention centre. Released on amnesty in December 2013.
Others charged under Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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