A court in Vladikavkaz forced police to reissue the report against Melnichenko.

The administrative case against Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko, detained on October 30 for picketing outside the North Ossetian Prosecutor's Office, has been refiled. The first time, the court returned the report to the police, stating that it was filed by "unauthorized persons."

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," the October 30 hearing to review the administrative report against Yulia Melnichenko, who was detained during a solo picket outside the North Ossetian Prosecutor's Office, did not take place; she was released home. Security forces had previously taken her to the police station, where an administrative report was filed against her for violating the decree of the head of North Ossetia on the procedure for holding public events, although the decree does not apply to solo pickets. Yulia Melnichenko learned that the court had initially refused to hear her case under Article 20.6.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses only on November 10th; prior to that, she had no information about the hearing date. As it turned out, the judge of the Leninsky Court of Vladikavkaz had returned the case materials to the police on the evening of October 30th.

“On November 10, information was published on the court’s website that the materials in my case were returned to the police due to ‘the preparation of a report and the processing of other case materials by unauthorized persons,’” Melnichenko told the Caucasian Knot, emphasizing that the judge’s decision “greatly surprised” her.  

Melnichenko emphasized that neither the police nor the prosecutor’s office had contacted her during these days. “Although I had hoped that the prosecutor’s office would respond to the complaints sent there, so far they have completely ignored me,” she said.

On the evening of November 11, information appeared on the website of the Leninsky District Court of Vladikavkaz that a new case against Yulia Melnichenko had been transferred to the same judge, under the same article of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Note that on September 11, Mozdok resident Yulia Melnichenko left Yulia Melnichenko held a picket outside the Prosecutor General's Office in Moscow, after which she spent more than three hours in police custody. Melnichenko, who had previously unsuccessfully sought to open a case regarding the beating of her brother Rostislav by a security officer in Mozdok, faced threats and pressure from law enforcement officers. At the picket, she demanded an "end to the repression." After the picket in Moscow, an FSB officer summoned Yulia Melnichenko for a conversation, informing her that no action would be taken on her complaints. The circumstances of the case regarding the beating of Melnichenko's brother by a security officer indicate gross violations, her lawyer confirmed.