In particular, this article is related to the persecution of citizens who do not support the war against Ukraine.
In Russia, opened almost two thousand administrative cases for article on “discrediting” the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Despite the fact that the article was adopted only in March 2022, its application has become an all-Russian practice. In addition, this article is related to the persecution of citizens who do not support the Russian invasion of Ukraine . This was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”.
It is noted that during the count, human rights activists collected data from the websites of courts, the system of DAS “Justice”, press releases of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as messages received by the hotline of the organization. Human rights activists ruled out duplicates.
It is estimated that 1933 cases were opened in Russia under “20.3.3 CPAP on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”
“Although the article was introduced only in March, its application it has already become an all-Russian practice: the police have not found “discrediting” only in Chechnya (strangely), Tyva and Magadan region, “human rights activists say.
In addition, the organization published a rating of “leading regions” by the number of open cases. It is noted that in the territory of the Russian-occupied Ukrainian Crimea, security forces opened 56 cases under the article on “discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces.
The “leading regions” included:
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In addition, Russian security forces for two months under the article on “discrediting” the army issued fines totaling 19,949,000 rubles. It is noted that the average fine is 34,218 rubles.
. Spoiler: very much, almost 2000.
Although the article was introduced only in March, its application has become an all-Russian practice: the police did not find “discrediting” only in Chechnya (surprisingly), Tuva and Magadan region pic.twitter.com/L3UFwu2hsm– OVD-Info (@OvdInfo) May 14, 2022
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The Russian Administrative Code introduced an article “on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces” a few days after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The article was also used against citizens who do not support Russia's military aggression. In addition, for the repeated “discrediting” of the army, the citizens of the Russian Federation face not administrative but criminal liability.
