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The court extended the detention of human rights activist Nagavkin
The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow extended the preventive measure for two months for Volgograd human rights activist Igor Nagavkin, head of the regional branch of the movement “For Human Rights”. About this on June 17, Novaya Gazeta.
reported the director of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev came to the court, he offered personal guarantee for Nagavkin. A personal guarantee was also presented from the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, but the court did not release the human rights activist.
According to lawyer Valery Shukhardin, Nagavkin has been in Butyrka for two and a half months, since the beginning of April, he was transferred because the criminal case against him was combined with another, under Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder), which is being investigated in Moscow , human rights activist Alexandra Bukvareva clarified. At the same time, the investigator for a long time pretended that he did not know at all that Nagavkin had arrived at Butyrka. No investigative actions were carried out with him during this time.
OVD-InfoNagavkin was detained on September 29 and subsequently by the Dzerzhinsky court in Volgograd. He is charged with attempted theft. Human rights activists believe that the reason for the persecution was Nagavkin’s professional activities. He himself believes that they became interested in him in connection with attempts to expose the drug mafia in the security forces.