Pavlensky was beaten by a Moscow City Court convoy

during the trial of the actionist. The artist Pyotr Pavlensky said that he had a broken knee, a crack in the rib and internal hematomas: “These are the usual consequences of normal transit through the escorts of the Moscow City Court,” says the note that Maria Alyokhina posted on Twitter

As activist Vladimir Akimenkov clarified to OVD-Info, the artist was beaten the night before, when they were being taken from the Preobrazhensky Court through the Moscow City Court to a pre-trial detention center. Lawyer Dmitry Dinze, representing the interests of Pavlensky, commented on the note to Mediazone. “Pyotr himself will not deal with these cops somehow, because he does not take part in bureaucratic procedures. But as for us, we, as defenders, will deal with it. We will send a request to the Medved pre-trial detention center for him to be examined, and formally, upon agreement, we will either contact the Investigative Committee, or we will talk with Peter and decide what to do. I can’t say yet what his position is, ”the publication quotes him as saying. At the moment, the Preobrazhensky District Court is on trial in the case of the Svoboda action: on February 23, 2014, in solidarity with the Kiev Maidan, Pavlensky set fire to car tires on the Maly Konyushenny Bridge in St. Petersburg and became a defendant under part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism) . The day before, the prosecutor offered to release the artist from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.