In Kazan, a picketer was fined for "demonstrating prohibited symbols." The man came out in a single pick with a sheet that says "Free Navalny, free country, free people" ("Freedom to Navalny, freedom to the country, freedom to the people"). His wife took the photo.
The detention took place on June 4, writes "OVD-info". The court ruled that the man is guilty under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses – demonstration of the symbols of a prohibited organization. The court imposed a fine of two thousand rubles on him. The couple were also found guilty of holding an uncoordinated action and sentenced Vadim to 28 hours of compulsory labor, and his wife to a fine of 20,000.
At the beginning of February 2022, The Insider published material about how security forces start cases in batches and send people to a special detention center for old publications with allegedly prohibited symbols. It is now easy to become a defendant in a case – it is enough to post a photo or screenshot with a red letter “H”, a red exclamation mark or a dot in the past. Cases are successfully started, despite the fact that neither letters, nor punctuation marks, nor the logo of Alexei Navalny's "Smart Voting" are prohibited by law.
