The text of the cassation ruling of the Moscow City Court in the Pussy Riot case has become known

October 10, 2012 on the official website of the Moscow City court published the text of the cassation ruling issued by the court Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court on the appeals of Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina and their lawyers against the verdict of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow.

In the complaints examined, the defense, in particular, pointed out that in the actions of the group lacked the corpus delicti under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code, questioned the quality of the examination and the objectivity of the experts and asked to cancel the verdict and close the criminal case. However, the Judicial Board in criminal cases agreed with the arguments put forward in the court of first instance: participants of the "punk prayer" "committed actions motivated by religious hatred and enmity, as well as motivated by hatred in relation to any social group on the basis of attitude to religion, publicly, by a group of persons by prior agreement .

At the same time, the Board, having accepted attention to Samutsevich's "insignificant role" in the action, came to the opportunity to change her term from real to conditional. Concerning Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina, the verdict was left unchanged, cassation appeals - without satisfaction.

"The arguments in the complaints that the judicial investigation was carried out unilaterally and biased, in violation of the requirements Articles 14 and Article 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation are invalid because they contradict case materials ," the cassation ruling reads, in particular.

Documents for execution sent to pre-trial detention center where Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina are kept.

Sources

• Cassation ruling in the case against Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich published // Official website of the Moscow City Court. 2012. September 16.