(Moscow, Russia) – One of the three organisers of Moscow Pride has escaped a jail sentence and was fined when found guilty this afternoon in a Moscow court which threw-out evidence, given at a previous hearing by a number of MPs from Europe, as “frivolous”. Nikolai Khramov was charged under the Code on Administrative Offences (h. Art. 19.3 – disobedience of legitimate demands of the police). He was fined 1,000 roubles (£20, €29, $39) by the Tver District Magistrates Court. The maximum sentence is 15 days imprisonment. The same judge will hear the cases against the other two Pride organizers, Mr. Alekseev at 9am (Moscow time) and Sergei Konstantinov, an activist with the “free radicals”) at 4.30pm. Similar verdicts are expected.
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