The FSIN demanded that the Cherepovets human rights activist be replaced with mandatory work in a pre-trial detention center in the case of insulting officials

The criminal-executive inspection of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Cherepovets demanded in court that the head of the local branch of the movement “For Human Rights” Grigory Winter be replaced with mandatory labor and imprisonment in the case of insulting ex-mayor Elena Avdeeva and the head of the city Margarita Guseva (Article 319 of the Criminal Code). about this . He himself told OVD-Info

In June, Winter was sentenced to 280 hours of compulsory labor for posts about the cutting down of the Pulovsky forest and insulting officials. Winter warned that he would not be able to serve his sentence due to his health, but the decision was not changed. As a result, the Federal Penitentiary Service demanded that he be sent to a pre-trial detention center.

Winter said that he learned about the lawsuit by chance from a court employee who asked: “Do you know that we are going to lock you up in a pre-trial detention center?”

Corrected October 5 at 1:15 p.m. OVD-Info erroneously reported that Winter was assigned corrective labor, not mandatory labor.