Konstantin Kotov was transported from Moscow - lawyer

Civil activist Konstantin Kotov, convicted of participating in peaceful protests (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code), was transferred on June 5 from the Moscow pre-trial detention center “Matrosskaya Tishina” to the Vladimir region. This was reported by the coordinator of legal assistance at OVD-Info, Alla Frolova.

Frolova also clarifies that as soon as the information about the stage is confirmed, lawyers from OVD-Info will visit Kotov.

OVD-Info lawyer Maria Eismont confirmed Kotov’s transfer; she received a response about transferring her letter to the convict to the Vladimir pre-trial detention center.

June 9 We changed the title due to information about the confirmation of the stage - At the end of April 2020, Kotova from the Kapotnya pre-trial detention center to Matrosskaya Tishina. Initially, representatives of the FSIN did not specify to either lawyers or relatives where the civil activist disappeared from Kapotnya. transferred - on April 20, 2020, the Moscow City Court sentenced Kotov from four to one and a half years in prison. softened - After a request from a Dozhd correspondent at the President’s December press conference to pay attention to this criminal case, Putin ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to conduct an investigation. That sentence was legal, but somewhat harsh - and decided that Kotov needed to commute his sentence to 1 year in prison, sending a corresponding submission to the cassation. In January, the Constitutional Court reviewed Kotov’s sentence, citing its ruling against Ildar Dadin, the first person convicted under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code. ordered , considered, decided - civil activist Konstantin Kotov in September 2019 to four years in prison under the “Dada” article (Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code) due to participation in, near the FSB building, in support of Ivan Golunov and after the rally for fair elections on August 10 , as well as a call to go to Trubnaya Square because independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma were not allowed to participate in the elections. sentenced to a gathering in support of Azat Miftakhov, a gathering “In Defense of the New Generation”, a walk action