The Moscow Bar Chamber has terminated disciplinary proceedings against the lawyers of Ivan Safronov

The Council of the Moscow Chamber of Advocates terminated disciplinary proceedings against the lawyers of the former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti, Ivan Safronov, who was accused of high treason. The Ministry of Justice demanded that the chamber hold the defenders accountable, as they refused to give a non-disclosure agreement on the data of the preliminary investigation. about this Writes "Kommersant".

In its decision, the council stated that “an attempt by the investigator to take signatures from lawyers under a document that does not comply with the requirements of the law and contains a warning about criminal liability for actions not properly identified, in fact, could not help ensure the legitimate interests of the preliminary investigation (which, moreover, , have already been provided with signatures of lawyers on non-disclosure of information constituting a state secret). At the same time, this attempt could be aimed at preventing lawyers from exercising their professional activities to protect their client by all means not prohibited by law.”

The decision of the chamber concerns lawyers Dmitry Katchev, Daniil Nikiforov, Sergey Malyukin and Oleg Eliseev.

In November 2020, Open Media reported that the chamber would not hold Safronov's defenders accountable, but the decision to terminate the disciplinary proceedings appeared in January 2021.

• Ivan Safronov is a former journalist for Kommersant and Vedomosti, at the time of his arrest he was an adviser to the head of Roskosmos. The persecution of Safronov is associated with his journalistic activities, he covered the work of the military-industrial complex. Safronov was detained on July 7, 2020 by FSB officers as part of a treason case. On the same day, the court sent him to a pre-trial detention center.