Lyubov Sobol, Lyusya Stein and Anastasia Vasilyeva were charged in a “sanitary case” • OVD-Info • RIMA

Lyubov Sobol, Lyusya Stein and Anastasia Vasilyeva were charged in a “sanitary case”

Anti-Corruption Foundation politician and lawyer Lyubov Sobol has been charged with a “sanitary case,” said on Twitter. her lawyer Vladimir Voronin

Sobol is accused of “inciting to violate sanitary and epidemiological rules, which created a threat of mass disease of people, inciting other people to commit a crime by persuasion and conscription” (part 4 of article 33, part 1 of article 236 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the politician invited Muscovites to participate in a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, and thus created the threat of a massive coronavirus infection.

Since January 29, Lyubov Sobol has been under house arrest.

16:50 Charges under this article were brought against Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Alliance of Doctors trade union, and Lyusya Shtein, a Moscow municipal deputy, according to Postcard and Apology of Protest . Stein has been under house arrest since February 3, Vasilyeva since January 29.

On April 26, 2017, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office declared a number of organizations associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky undesirable. The list includes UK-registered OR Otkrytaya Rossia, Open Russia Civic Movement, Open Russia and Institute of Modern Russia, Inc, registered in the USA. The Russian authorities believe that the Open Russia movement is related to these legal entities, and therefore is also an undesirable organization on the territory of the Russian Federation.
On February 3, charges in this case were also brought against Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, Oleg Stepanov, coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Moscow, and Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg Navalny.
In total, in the wake of the protests over the trial of Alexei Navalny, more than 20 criminal cases were opened across the country.
In connection with the detention of Alexei Navalny, a series of protests took place throughout Russia. The most massive actions took place on Saturday 23 January and Sunday 31 January. The security forces reacted harshly to the protests: on January 23, more than 4,000 people were detained , and on January 31, more than 5,500 . On the day the term in the Yves Rocher case was changed to a real one, detentions also took place near the Moscow City Court , including journalists.