Vyacheslav Shashmin
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 2 applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Suspended prison sentence
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2019-10-03
- Region
- Rostov Oblast
- City
- Rostov-on-Don
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 4 December 2018
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Case summary
On 5 November 2017, he was detained while trying to go to the Square of Soviets in Rostov-on-Don in response to Vyacheslav Maltsev's call to stage a "revolution". On 6 November, arrested for five days under the article on petty hooliganism. On 9 November a case of preparation for mass riots was opened. During the interrogation in the criminal case, an appointed lawyer was present, who was not supposed to be on duty that day. Shashmin was placed under house arrest.
On 4 October 2019, he was sentenced to three years' suspended sentence.
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