Pavel Tolmachev
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Region
- Mari El
- City
- Yoshkar-Ola
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as persecuted on political groundsby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 31 January 2013
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Case summary
Detained on 9 November 2012, his home was searched, according to him, without a court order; on 12 November it was officially reported that a criminal case had been opened regarding calls for mass riots; in 2013 the case was dropped for lack of corpus delicti
Others charged under Article 212 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
- Name withheld
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Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
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