A criminal case was opened against a supporter of the Rassvet party and a volunteer of Boris Nadezhdin’s headquarters in the Primorsky Territory, Vasily Gorelikov, for calls for extremist activity (Article 280 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the founder of the Rassvet party, Ekaterina Duntsova, who tried to register for the Russian presidential elections.
According to her, the reason for initiating the case was Gorelikov’s old posts on social networks. Duntsova did not specify which ones. The court chose a preventive measure for the activist in the form of a ban on certain actions.
On June 5, the human rights project OVD-Info, citing a source in Nadezhdin’s headquarters, reported that they came to Gorelikov with a search in the city of Nakhodka, Primorsky Territory, after which the activist was taken away in an unknown direction. During the search, letters to political prisoners were taken from him.
The next day, Nikita Safin, a lawyer at Nadezhdin’s headquarters in Primorye, told the publication “7×7” that Gorelikov was in the FSB building in Vladivostok. At that time, there was no contact with the activist for about 35 hours; a lawyer was not allowed to see him.
In March, during the presidential elections, Gorelikov was arrested for five days under the article of disobedience to a police officer (Part 1 of Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). At Nadezhdin’s headquarters they said that the activist was suspected of planning to fill a ballot box with green paint, and at the police station he was already accused of resisting arrest. According to Gorelikov, this did not happen.