Prosecutors insist on guilty verdict for Bolotnaya Square riot case defendants

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Court to hear parties' arguments in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square riot case

MOSCOW, January 22. /ITAR-TASS/. Prosecution is insisting on a guilty verdict for the defendants in the case over the riot in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in May 2012.

"I believe the defendants' guilt is proven at the trial," the prosecutor for the state said during the arguments of the parties at Moscow's Zamoskvorechye court on Wednesday.

The defendants, Stepan Zimin, Alexei Polikhovich, Artem Savelov, Denis Lutskevich, Sergei Krivov, Yaroslav Belousov, Andrei Barabanov and Alexandra Dukharina /Naumova/, are accused of rioting and using violence against police on duty.