The Moscow City Court released from pre-trial detention a pensioner arrested in the case of insulting an official

The Moscow City Court overturned the decision of the Basmanny District Court and released 66-year-old Tamara Vasilyeva from custody, who is accused of evading punishment in the case of insulting a government representative (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). this on his Facebook page . announced Lawyer Dmitry Dzhulai

“Many thanks to all the journalists for the resonance! This decision would not have been possible without you! Many thanks to Dmitry Chvanenko, who then did not pass by this grandmother in Basmanny and told about it on his Facebook. Because this grandmother then turned to everyone in a row in Basmanny's corridor, and everyone brushed her off. If not for Dmitry, due to human indifference, this story could have remained unknown, ”writes Dzhulai.

Now Vasilyeva is free. She was released from the pre-trial detention center after the detention center employees received the decision of the Moscow City Court.

• In 2017, Tamara Vasilyeva was fined seven thousand rubles in a criminal case of insulting the head of a rural settlement. The pensioner had no money to pay the fine, so in 2018 her punishment was changed to restriction of freedom. In 2019, the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) made a proposal to change the sentence to imprisonment, and on July 15, the Basmanny Court of Moscow sent Vasilyeva to a pre-trial detention center for 30 days.