In Cherepovets, the Federal Penitentiary Service demanded that a human rights activist be subject to correctional work in a pre-trial detention center

19:00 Winter was assigned 280 hours of compulsory work.

The Penitentiary Inspectorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Cherepovets demanded that the court replace the head of the local branch of the movement "For Human Rights" Grigory Winter with mandatory work in a pre-trial detention center. This was reported to OVD-Info by Winter himself.

Compulsory work was assigned to Winter for a post on a personal closed page on a social network. In the post itself, the human rights activist spoke about the deforestation of the Pulovsky forest and used an obscene word about the former mayor of Cherepovets, Avdeyeva, and the head of the city, Guseva. Then the Cherepovets World Court found him guilty under the article on insulting the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code) and appointed 280 hours of compulsory work, as well as 60 thousand rubles in the form of compensation for moral damage.

Due to the state of health, Winter could not serve out work, and therefore filed a petition, but he was not satisfied. Once again, when a human rights activist came to court to get a seal on documents, a court employee asked him: “Do you know that we are going to close you in a pre-trial detention center?” It turned out that the inspectorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service sent a demand to change Winter's sentence to a pre-trial detention center due to the fact that he was not serving his job.

Winter also noted that he learned about the lawsuit of the Federal Penitentiary Service by accident. The court session on the review of the sentence will take place on October 18, but no notice was sent to him.

• Activists of the Vologda movement of the “For Human Rights” branch opposed the felling of the Pulovskoye Forest in Cherepovets for residential development.
• On March 14, 2018, Winter was attacked by an unknown person near his own house. The human rights activist was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, broken ribs and swelling in his right eye. The assailant said to Winter: "For the forest." The human rights activist is sure that the attack was organized by the local authorities because of his participation in saving the Pulovsky forest.
• In February 2019, Winter was sent for a compulsory medical examination as part of a criminal case on threats to the secretary of the court (Article 119 of the Criminal Code) - he allegedly said on October 15, 2018 that he would blow up the court building.