The Moscow City Court rejected the request of the comedian Mirzalizade to change the terms of the ban on his stay in Russia

The Moscow City Court did not satisfy the complaint of stand-up comedian Idrak Mirzalizade against the court’s decision, which ordered the Interior Ministry to establish a reasonable period of ban on his stay in Russia instead of a life-long ban. The Insider was told about this by the comedian’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin. According to him, the decision will be appealed.

Recall, on September 16, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow suspended the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the undesirability of Mirzalizade’s stay in Russia. In October, the court partially satisfied his claim against the Ministry of Internal Affairs and ordered the department to establish a reasonable period of ban on the stay of a comedian in the Russian Federation instead of life. After that, Mirzalizadeh filed a complaint against this decision. He argues that the order on the undesirability of his stay should be canceled completely, and not set any time frame.

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs issued an order stating that I was undesirable for life,” explains Mirzalizade. – We are filing this order with the court that it is illegal. Then the court decided to partially satisfy our claim, to limit ourselves to a reasonable time. We appealed this decision in order to completely cancel it ”. It was this appeal that was rejected on December 9 by the Moscow City Court.

At the end of August, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation made a decision on the lifelong “undesirability of staying” of a citizen of Belarus Mirzalizade in Russia.

On August 9, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow arrested the stand-up artist for ten days under Art. 20.3.1 Administrative Code (incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). Comedian Mirzalizade was sentenced to administrative arrest on charges of inciting hatred. The reason was his performance in the March issue of the YouTube show “Acceleration”. The comedian told what tricks he used to convince realtors to rent the apartment to him. According to the protocol, the claims were prompted by his words that “the French are a great nation and can afford to be nationalists”, “and this is some Russian Pavel looking at me with a claim.”

In this context, Mirzalizade told how, when moving, he found a mattress stained with feces in his apartment. He noted that the previous tenants were Russian and jokingly suggested that Russians tend to stain mattresses with feces and go to bed. This fragment was shown on the YouTube channel of the Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov with the headline “Dirt underfoot.” “You see, he is a comedian, and he compares Russians to such a mattress. And this, excuse me, is not an article? And what has he forgotten in Russia? ” – commented Vladimir Soloviev. Later, a one-minute excerpt from Mirzalizade’s speech was circulated by the pro-Kremlin conservative TV channel Tsargrad and social media users.

The comedian said that after speaking only on Instagram, he received several thousand threatening messages, and on June 25 he was attacked by unknown persons in the center of Moscow, on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.