Filatov Georgiy Vyacheslavovich

In October 2022, a criminal case was initiated in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky against two local residents, activists Alexander Kamenyuk and Georgy Filatov. They were accused of publicly insulting representatives of the authorities as part of a group of persons, as well as slander combined with accusations of committing serious and particularly serious crimes. According to the investigation, on September 14, 2021, Kamenyuk and Filatov visited the Kamchatka Krai Prosecutor's Office. After a conflict with employees over a ban on video recording, between September 14 and October 12, 2021, they created and published a video titled "About the Work of the Prosecutor's Office" on YouTube. In the video, according to the investigation, they publicly insulted three employees of the prosecutor's office and spread slanderous information, accusing employees of the Kamchatka Territory prosecutor's office of protecting illegal drug trafficking and fabricating criminal cases. Kamenyuk was in custody from September 14 to 16, 2022, and at other times in this case he was under house arrest. Filatov was held in custody from July 11 to August 18, 2023, after which he was placed under house arrest. On August 18, 2023, the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City Court found the defendants guilty and sentenced Alexandra Kamenyuk to 470 hours of compulsory labor and Georgy Filatov to 460 hours of compulsory labor. On November 16, 2023, the Kamchatka Regional Court released Kamenyuk and Filatov from punishment under the article on insulting a government official due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution. Otherwise, including the punishment in the form of compulsory labor under the article on defamation, the verdict was left unchanged.