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A court in Samara suspended the trial of Artpodgotovka activist Ryzhov due to serious illness
The Central District Military Court in Samara suspended the trial of Saratov activist Sergei Ryzhov, accused in the Artpodgotovka case. The reason for this decision was the serious illness of the accused, according to a message on the website of the court, which drew the attention of OVD-Info.
Ryzhov has been under arrest for more than three years. In November 2019, in a pre-trial detention center, while playing volleyball with other detainees, he broke his femoral neck, but the Federal Penitentiary Service denied him proper treatment for more than a year. In January 2021, the activist was found in the hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service, OVD-Info notes.
As reminds Mediazona , which told in detail how the Federal Penitentiary Service refuses to provide medical assistance to the activist, the traumatologist who examined Ryzhov at the request of the lawyer pointed out errors in treatment and said that he immediately needed an operation to replace damaged joints with prostheses. However, the SIZO did not carry out the operation, the court also refused to send him for a medical examination. The Federal Penitentiary Service stated that the activist needed an operation due to his non-compliance with the doctor's recommendations.
The Moscow District Military Court sentenced Oleg Dmitriev, Oleg Ivanov and Sergei Ozerov, activists of the Artpodgotovka movement, to real terms. They were found guilty of crimes under Part 1 of Art. 30 of the Criminal Code, part 2 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code (preparation to commit a terrorist act). Ivanov was sentenced to seven years in a strict regime colony, Dmitriev and Ozerov were sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony.
Ryzhov was charged with preparing for a terrorist attack (under part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code, part 1 of article 205 of the Criminal Code) on Theater Square in Saratov on November 5, 2017. On this day, as the leader of the movement, Vyacheslav Maltsev, repeatedly stated, a revolution was supposedly supposed to take place in Russia. Ryzhov was detained on November 1, 2017 in Saratov. After that, he was transferred to Moscow and arrested, in the summer of 2019, before the hearing of the case in Samara, he was transferred to SIZO-1.
Artpodgotovka was declared extremist and banned in Russia in October 2017. Maltsev himself fled abroad in the summer of 2017. in absentia He was arrested on charges of public calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).
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