Some Controversial Issues of the Objective Side and Subject of Obviously Illegal Detention (Part 1 of Article 301 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)

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The article is devoted to certain problematic issues of the objective side and the subject of the corpus delicti provided for in part 1 of article 301 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The clarifications of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, given in 2022, largely eliminated a number of controversial issues that existed in the doctrine. For example, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation expanded the number of subjects of this crime, and also indicated that this crime can be committed, including in the form of inaction. However, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ignored certain problematic issues, and some of its clarifications are debatable. The latter, in particular, include the presence of corpus delicti provided for in part 1 of article 306 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, if the arrest was carried out in the absence of a decision to institute criminal proceedings. This and other problematic issues of deliberately unlawful detention are discussed in this article.

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E. A. Melnikov

Lomonosov Moscow State University

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