The court softened the conditions of house arrest for former member of the Open Russia Council Anastasia Shevchenko

The panel of judges of the Fourth Court of Cassation in Krasnodar, chaired by Judge Maksim Karaulov, softened the conditions of house arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko, accused under the article on participation in “activities of an undesirable organization” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by MBH Media, the information is also confirmed on the website of the court.

As Aleksey Pryanishnikov, coordinator of the Human Rights Defenders of the Postcard, said in a conversation with MBKh Media, the ban on communication with other persons was lifted from Shevchenko.

In March, the Leninsky District Court extended Shevchenko's house arrest for six months, until September 1. On the same day, March 18, the Oktyabrsky District Court began to consider the case of Anastasia Shevchenko on the merits.

Shevchenko's preventive measure was extended for six months due to the inability to consider the case on time. The Rostov Regional Court on April 3, in an appeal, recognized this decision as legal.

• Anastasia Shevchenko was a member of the federal council of Open Russia. In January 2019, a criminal case was opened against her for “carrying out the activities of an organization recognized as undesirable on the territory of Russia” (Article 284.1 of the Criminal Code), the first criminal case under this article. At the end of January 2019, she was placed under house arrest.
• Shevchenko's criminal case is based on two administrative offenses under the article on "undesirable organization" (Article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The first one is about participation as a coordinator in political debates in Taganrog, the second one is for the publication of the announcement of the lecture “Postcards”. As stated in the case file, Shevchenko allegedly did not stop her activities out of criminal intent, at a meeting of “Postcards” she called on activists to infiltrate protest groups, offering them legal assistance, and then at the rally “she showed symbols from the protest action“ Tired of it ””.
• In April 2017, the Prosecutor General's Office declared undesirable several organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, registered in the UK and the USA. Despite the fact that the Russian movement was not banned, its participants continued to be persecuted. On March 30, 2019, Open Russia declared self-liquidation for security reasons.