Andrey Pesotsky

Pesotsky was subjected to administrative detention on 31 October 2010 during a rally in Gostiny Dvor in St. Petersburg as part of the "Strategy-31" campaign for freedom of assembly; on 1 November in the evening, Judge Kuznetsov sentenced the member of the executive committee of the Other Russia in St. Petersburg to 14 days of administrative arrest; On 3 November, the Kuibyshev District Court sent the ruling on Pesotsky's administrative arrest for review - Pesotsky is released from the court building; on his way out he is detained by officers of the Centre "E" and taken to the city Investigative Committee, where he is notified of the initiation of a criminal case and transferred to the status of a suspect; he signs a non-deportation undertaking; in the evening, Pesotsky's places of residence are searched; on 11 November, he is charged under part 1 of article 282.2 of the Criminal Code. 1 article 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organisation of activities of an extremist organisation); on 28 December 2012, he was sentenced to a fine of 200,000 roubles, but was released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitation