31/8/2007 Organizer of the meeting in memory of Politkovskaya will be trialled for too many participants of the action
Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya held on August 30 in the centre of Moscow, will face trial on charges on breaching the established order of organizing actions.
The militia made a protocol on him under part 2, Article 20.2 of the RF Code of Administrative Offences. Mr Nalyotov, an activist of the Committee of Anti-War Actions, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent himself.
The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that "after the end of the meeting in memory of Politkovskaya, Andrei Nalyotov was detained and delivered to the Tver Interior Department (OVD) of Moscow. The reason was, as militiamen had explained to Nalyotov, that the number of the participants previously coordinated with the authorities was exceeded by 200 persons.
According to the notification that Mr Nalyotov had submitted to the Mayoralty of Moscow, the maximum expected audience of the meeting was 100 persons. The human rights activist asserts that initially he had indicated 500 participants in his notification, but people in the Mayoralty "had asked" him to drop the number under the motive that at a greater declared number of the audience it would be difficult to coordinate the action with various agencies. Thus, by an official estimate of Moscow militia, the real number of the participants was 300 persons.
According to the estimate of the organizers of the meeting themselves, which coincides with the estimates of Lev Ponomaryov, leader of the Movement "For Human Rights," and the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, about 500 persons came to pay tribute to the murdered journalist on her birthday.
See earlier reports: "Meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya held in Moscow."
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