Defense lawyers appeal sentence given to unauthorized protest participant Shpakov for hitting police officer
MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - The defense lawyers for Alexander Shpakov, who has been convicted to one year and six months in a penal colony for hitting a police officer during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on March 26, have filed an appeal.
"We have already filed an appeal against the court ruling," Sergei Badamshin, a lawyer for Shpakov, told Interfax.
Badamshin said he believed the court was too tough on his client, bearing in mind the position of the victim, who had asked the court not to give Shpakov a real jail time. "The damage done to his family, his mother and daughter, is incommensurate to the harm to the public he has been implicated in," the lawyer said.
Moscow's Tverskoi District Court earlier on Wednesday sentenced Shpakov to one year and six months in a penal colony for subjecting a police officer to violence not posing danger to his health.
