16 January 2018, 01:48
Astrakhan activists hold solo pickets in support of Maxim Panfilov
Astrakhan activists Alexei Tyurin, Mikhail Anisenko, and Igor Stenin have held solo pickets in support of Maxim Panfilov, who was sentenced in the case of involvement in mass riots in Bolotnaya Square.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on March 29, 2017, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow freed from criminal liability Maxim Panfilov, a figurant of the "Bolotnaya Square case", a resident of Astrakhan, and pronounced the decision to send him for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric hospital.
The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" recognized Maxim Panfilov as a political prisoner.
On January 15, a commission held a meeting at the Astrakhan Regional Psychiatric Hospital to recognize Maxim Panfilov as a person not dangerous to society, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the mother of Maxim Panfilov.
While the commission was holding a meeting, activists Alexei Tyurin, Mikhail Anisenko, and Igor Stenin held solo pickets in support of Maxim Panfilov.
According to Alexei Tyurin, the Maxim Panfilov's case is of absurd nature.
"He was not an activist. He came to Bolotnaya Square to express his opinion. Moscow law enforcers suddenly took him with his diagnosis to a Moscow prison as a dangerous criminal and provided no proper medical support. And that resulted in an aggravation of his syndrome, and he was shut down in a psychiatric hospital," Alexei Tyurin told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.
Author: Elena Grebenyuk Source: CK correspondent
