MOSCOW. Feb 9 (Interfax) - The Moscow City Court next week will review an appeal contesting the arrest of Said-Mukhammad Dzhumayev, a native of Russia's internal republic of Chechnya, who got into a fight with Russian Guard officers during an opposition rally in Moscow on January 23.
"The hearing on the appeal with regard to suspect Said-Mukhammad Dzhumayev is due to start at 10:00 a.m. on February 15, 2021," the press service for the first court to handle Dzhumayev's case told Interfax.
A hearing into an appeal lodged by blogger Konstantin Lakeyev has been set for February 17, the press service said. Apart from that, the Moscow City Court will review appeals filed by Valery Yevsin and Timur Salikhov on February 15 and an appeal from Yevgeny Yesenov, the first person arrested in connection with the January 23 demonstration, at 9:50 a.m. on February 10.
All of these persons are suspected of using violence that did not pose a threat to life or health against police officers or their relatives or a threat to use it in connection with the fulfilment by police officers of their official duties.
Unauthorized demonstrations in support of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was arrested after returning to Russia, were held across Russia, including in Moscow, on January 23 and January 31.
After the demonstration in Moscow, law enforcement authorities opened a number of criminal cases, including those on counts of a breach of sanitary and epidemiological requirements, violence against persons in authority, and hooliganism.