The court left the leader of the "Left Resistance" in pre-trial detention center

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal against a preventive measure against the leader of the Left Resistance, Daria Polyudova. The activist will remain in jail until March 13, 2020. A listener of the meeting reported this to OVD-Info.

Polyudova’s defender, lawyer of the international human rights group “Agora” Leonid Solovyov, stated in court that there is no need to keep his client in custody, since she has no opportunity to hide. Polyudova is dependent on her elderly parents, and the activist herself does not have a passport or money to leave the country.

The Moscow City Court did not take into account the defense's arguments and decided to leave the decision to place him in custody until March 13, 2020 unchanged.

• On January 23, 2020, Daria Polyudova was charged with “calls for separatism” (Part 1 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code) and “justification of terrorism” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).
• According to the lawyer, the case materials say that Polyudova, “acting for separatist purposes,” on January 31, 2019, stood with a poster with the inscription “Kuril Islands, stop feeding Moscow. Long live the Far Eastern Republic" and "according to linguistic experts, called for a referendum on secession from the Russian Federation."
• On the morning of January 15, Daria Polyudova and Gradus TV journalist Olga Sapronova were searched , during which both women were detained. The security forces did not allow lawyer from OVD-Info Yulia Sycheva to see Polyudova. Sapronova was released after interrogation in the FSB building, forcing her lawyer to sign a non-disclosure agreement. The next day, Polyudova was placed in a pre-trial detention center as a suspect.
• In 2014–2015, Polyudova was accused of calling for extremism and separatism. Then she was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.