The court upheld the arrest of the Rosderzhava journalist. He spoke about the terrible cell in the pre-trial detention center

The Moscow City Court upheld the preventive measure in the form of detention for Rosderzhava journalist Alexander Dorogov, who is accused of extortion (Part 3 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). About this in the telegram channel “Katelevsky and Dorogov Info”.

It is reported that the defense appealed the decision of the Tverskoy District Court on Dorogov’s arrest in absentia dated July 28. He participated in the appeal hearing via video link. The court took into account that Alexander Dorogov is the father of five children and that he could not leave the country since his foreign passport was with his wife, but refused to satisfy the petition to change the preventive measure to one not related to imprisonment.

At the court hearing, Dorogov told via video conferencing how he was unexpectedly transported from the pre-trial detention center in Yegoryevsk to the pre-trial detention center in Kashira. An audio recording of his conversations with lawyer Konstantin Barkovsky at the trial on the “Movement” YouTube channel.

Published on September 1. Dorogov was taken to the Kashira pre-trial detention center for 14 hours, during which time he did not eat anything. The journalist was not warned that it was planned to send him to another pre-trial detention center. In the pre-trial detention center in Yegoryevsk, Dorogov was required to leave his cell with his personal belongings. Typically, this procedure means that the pre-trial detention center staff will conduct a search and then the person will return to the cell. However, Dorogov was sent to a paddy wagon, and all the things and food that his relatives and friends gave him remained in the cell.

In Kashira, Dorogov was placed in a very small, cold cell, where he had to wear 4 T-shirts in an attempt to keep warm. Low ceiling about two meters, torn mattresses, moisture on the walls.

“The camera is not equipped, there is nothing, no water, nothing. There is no water tank, no trash can. There is no information. Very cold. I tell them “coldly”, they say “be patient” <...> On the 25th in pre-trial detention center No. 7 [in Yegoryevsk] we filed 33 complaints with cellmates, these complaints were buried, not a single complaint was registered,” he shared with the lawyer Dorogov.

Lawyer Barkovsky noted gross violations and disregard for the law during the consideration of the appeal against the arrest of his client. “Of course, she [the judge] already had a decision ready. And, given that 10 minutes had not passed since she was in the deliberation room and [then] announced an effective speech, we had no chance. Although, as far as substantive and procedural law is concerned, Mr. Dorogov should have been released immediately.”

• On August 18, the arrested journalist Alexander Dorogov was transferred from the temporary detention center in Lobnya to pre-trial detention center-7, which is located in Yegoryevsk near Moscow. Before this, for about 10 days, the whereabouts of the journalist were unknown to either Dorogov’s relatives or lawyers. Dorogov’s lawyer reported that his client has cellmates in the pre-trial detention center, and that the pre-trial detention center employees are putting pressure on him. It became known that journalists of the publication “Rosderzhava” Yan Katelevsky and Alexander Dorogov were beaten at the end of July. They are accused of extortion: the investigation believes that the journalists demanded 1.3 million rubles from a traffic police officer for refusing to publish materials about him. The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested Dorogov in absentia the day before his arrest. At the same time, the journalist was not informed about the meeting, nor was they informed that a criminal case had been opened against him. detained - The journalists themselves have a criminal case ordered and fabricated against them because of their professional activities and investigations, which they published, including on their YouTube channel. consider