Sergei Lopatin
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war cases
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Case summary
Resident of Moscow, author of the course "Biology of War". Worked as a school biology teacher. After picketing with a placard "I was taught as a child: "There should be no war". Now I'm the teacher. And I don't know what to say to my pupils" he was fined and dismissed from the school. And after participating in a rally against mobilisation, he was arrested for 13 days and dismissed from another school. After that, Lopatin left Russia.
In 2024, a case was brought against him for spreading "fakes" about the Armed Forces because of his post about the events in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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