Stanislav Zimovets
- Criminal Code
- Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 2 years 6 months
- Date of verdict
- 2017-07-19
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
- Facility
- ФКУ "ИК № 12 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области"
- Address for letters
- 404103, Волгоградская область, г. Волжский, ул. Александрова, 86, ФКУ "ИК № 12 УФСИН России по Волгоградской области", Зимовец Станислав Сергеевич, 1985 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 16 August 2017
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Case summary
Stanislav Zimovets is a nationalist, participant in an anti-corruption rally on 26 March 2017 in Moscow. Accused of using violence against a police officer: according to the investigation, he threw a brick at a Rosgvardiya fighter, then "changed his clothes for the purpose of conspiracy" and, taking out a traumatic pistol, "provoked those present to illegal actions". He is being held in the pre-trial detention centre, for some unknown reason he was placed in a block for those accused of crimes punishable by life imprisonment. Under pressure, he pleaded guilty and agreed to a special trial, but then refused to do so.
On 20 July 2017, he was sentenced to two and a half years in a general regime colony.
He was released on 23 July 2019.
Others charged under Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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