MOSCOW, July 28 (RAPSI, Diana Gutsul) – The Tverskoy District Court will begin hearing the case against Dmitry Krepkin, a participant of the unauthorized March 26 rally in Moscow, who stands charged with attacking a police officer, lawyer Ilnur Sharapov told RAPSI on Friday.

According to investigators, the defendant resisted police officers and kicked one of them. Krepkin was put in detention until August 16.

Earlier, the court sentenced three other participants of the rally. Yury Kuliy and Alexander Shpakov to 8 months in penal colony settlement and 1.5 years in prison respectively. Kuliy and Shpakov have pleaded guilty to the use of violence against a representative of authority.

Stanislav Zimovets was given 2.5 years in prison for the attack on a police officer. He has not pleaded guilty in full.

According to the Main Directorate of the Interior Ministry for Moscow, about 500 people were arrested on March 26 during the unauthorized rally. Overall number of people present in the area at the time was estimated at as high as 8,000 people. One of the police officers received injuries, a criminal case was launched over this incident.

The Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, arrested during the rally, claimed that Moscow authorities refused to greenlight the rally in the city’s center and proposed alternative areas only a day before it was to take place. Navalny said that in this case Russian legislation allows organizers to hold an event at the area, which was listed first.