The court rejected the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to send to the pre-trial detention center Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina, accused in a “sanitary case”

Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow rejected the Federal Penitentiary Service’s request to send a participant to the SIZO Pussy Riot and Maria Alekhina, accused in the sanitary case, writes “Mediazona” with reference to the lawyer of “Apology of Protest” Daniel Berman.

According to the lawyer, the Federal Penitentiary Service introduced the idea of ​​replacing the preventive measure with a stricter one, it was supported by the state prosecution.

Until January 8, Maria Alekhina is under house arrest for a “sanitary case”. Over the past two months, the activist was arrested twice for 15 days for “disobeying a police officer” (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).

Criminal case under Art. 236 of the Criminal Code “Violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules” was initiated after the action in Moscow on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny. In total, there are ten accused in the case, including Oleg Navalny, press secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s associate Lyubov Sobol, municipal deputies Lucy Stein and Dmitry Baranovsky, Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina and others.

According to the investigation, from January 18 to 23, the defendants in the case published posts with “calls” to participate in the action on Pushkin Square. Subsequently, according to the UK, people infected with COVID-19 came there.

Earlier, several members of Pussy Riot, including Alexander Sofeev and Veronika Nikulshina, left Russia. The reason for the departure was the persecution of the group members and repeated arrests under the article on disobedience to the police. Later, Anna Kuzminykh announced her intention to leave. began to arrive threats from representatives of the “Male State”.