Source: HRO.org (info), 16/01/12 · Freedom of expression · Chelyabinsk region ![]() This decision by senior investigator Rustam Gilmanshin of 16 January 2012 was handed by Andrei Ermolenko to the Agora Human Rights Association, which had acted as his legal counsel. The main reasons for halting the prosecution were the failure by experts to find any evidence of extremism in Andrei Ermolenko’s blogs, and the fact that the experts found that officials of the Prosecutor’s Office, the courts, the police, or civil servants and deputies of the State Duma, could not be considered to constitute a distinct social group. [Read more] |
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