MOSCOW, June 26 (RAPSI, Lyudmila Klenko) – Investigation into Dmitry Krepkin, one more participant of the unauthorized March 26 rally in Moscow, who stands charged with attacking a police officer, has been completed, attorney Ilnur Sharapov told RAPSI on Monday.
Krepkin earlier was put in detention.
Two other rally participants, Yury Kuliy and Alexander Shpakov have been already sentenced for violence against a law enforcement officer. Kuliy was given 8 months in a penal colony settlement. Shpakov received a 1.5-year prison sentence.
They have pleaded guilty.
The Interior Ministry reported that about 500 people had been arrested during the unauthorized rally on March 26. 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.
According to the Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny, arrested during the rally, 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.