Maxim Luzyanin is now in the Tula region. In a general-regime penal colony, where he is serving time for "taking part in the Bolotnaya Square riots" (the 2012 anti-government protest in Moscow). He was the first to be sentenced. Maxim is a businessman, an athlete, a bodybuilder, and the father of a 15-year-old son. He owns a fitness club and has even received commendations from the local authorities in Podolsk and from the Moscow diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church for "holding sporting events and contributing to the spiritual, moral, and patriotic education of young people." An ordinary man, he took to the streets when ordinary people are supposed to take to the streets.
According to investigators, on May 6 the "suspect, during the mass event, broke through police cordons, struck police officers with his hands and feet, and used chokeholds against law enforcement officers maintaining public order." For two days after his arrest, lawyers and relatives were not allowed to see Maxim; he was kept in a cell without food or water and was allegedly beaten. Maxim was forced to "admit guilt," but he did not falsely implicate anyone, did not testify against the supposedly invented "organizers" named by the investigation, and did not lie by saying he had come at someone's urging or for someone's money.
On November 9, Judge Andrei Fedin of Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court sentenced Maxim Luzyanin on two counts: 3.5 years under Article 212, Part 2, and 2 years under Article 318, Part 1. By partially merging the sentences, the final term came to 4 years and 6 months. In effect, Luzyanin is accused of causing physical pain and minor bodily injuries, the most serious of which was a chipped tooth enamel suffered by one of the police officers. Maxim paid for his dental treatment. Not one of the "victims" appeared in court. I appear in the video about Maxim Luzyanin.
http://youtu.be/oCNMJVwwcnQ And here's something else I want to say: Do you remember the incident at the Maimonides Academy? That was when OMON riot police had to be called in and the dormitory building stormed in order to bring several students to the Investigative Committee for questioning in the case of the fight near the Yevropeysky shopping mall.
Here is the full version, recorded by outdoor surveillance cameras: http://youtu.be/bumvRYa5_kY So these were real mass riots (unlike Bolotnaya), a mass brawl, an actual fight with the police, and even shots fired into the air. Sentences: Khabib Ibragimov was sentenced to one year in a penal colony for using violence against a government official that was not dangerous to health. Alkhazur Magomedov received two years for using violence against a government official that was dangerous to health. Just yesterday, Moscow's Solntsevsky Court sentenced the third participant in the fight, Mairbek Islamov, to one year and two months in prison. There has been no reporting on apartments allegedly given by Moscow City Hall to the OMON officers who suppressed the unrest at the Maimonides Academy. So this is what justice looks like. This is how everyone is equal before the law. See y**ou on May 6. **P.S. Also, on May 12 there will be another charitable concert, "For Your Freedom and Ours," in support of political prisoners. Tickets can be bought here, here and here. Such concerts have been held for several years now, and the organizers regularly report on the funds raised and spent.