The censor of the Kursk pre-trial detention center did not miss 33 New Year cards for Nikita Chirtsov, a defendant in the “Moscow case”

The censor of Kursk pre-trial detention center No. 1 did not miss 33 New Year cards for Nikita Chirtsov, a defendant in the “Moscow case”. “Prisoners 212” is about this.

reports Telegram channel During the New Year holidays, at parties for signing cards for political prisoners, organized by the Arresters 212 project, 33 cards were signed for Nikita Chirtsov. They were sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kursk, where Chirtsov is now being held, but not a single postcard passed censorship. All postcards were returned to the senders with the note: “Such postcards cannot be sent. Censor".

Human rights activist Roman Kiselev and former defendant in the “Moscow case” Alexei Minyailo filed a complaint to the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service in connection with the unlawful and unfounded use of censorship in the pre-trial detention center.

“Prisoners 212”, along with the text of the complaint, photographs of all 33 New Year’s cards that did not pass the censorship of the pre-trial detention center.

published - December 6, Tverskoy District Court Nikita Chirtsov to the year of colony, in pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Kursk, he is awaiting an appeal. sentenced - Chirtsov was detained on August 28 in Minsk and sent to Moscow because he was on the wanted list of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the case of using violence against a government official and participating in mass riots. Two days after Chirtsov returned to Russia, he was detained. because- According to the prosecution, Chirtsov used violence against a government official - he deliberately pushed a policeman in the chest with both hands at the rally on July 27 (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). He denies his guilt, and the injured policeman said at one of the hearings that he did not feel pain, but “simply stepped back.” - In connection with the Moscow rally on July 27 for fair elections, during which the police dispersed at least 1,373 people, they were charged with mass riots (Article 212 of the Criminal Code) and the use of violence against government officials (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). Seven people were sentenced to various terms in this case, and another eleven are under investigation. The prosecution of five defendants in the case was stopped. detained a criminal case