Former FBK operator Zelensky was sent to a colony pending an appeal against the verdict in the case of two tweets

Former cameraman Pavel Zelensky was transferred to a colony from a Moscow pre-trial detention center pending an appeal against the verdict in the case of two tweets. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, with reference to lawyer Svetlana Baiturina.

The appeal hearing is scheduled for June 1, Zelensky was taken away from the pre-trial detention center on May 19.

In mid-April, Zelensky was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony, having been found guilty of The operator was taken into custody in the courtroom; before that, in February, he was released from pre-trial detention center under house arrest.

The court considered the case in a special manner, that is, without examining the evidence, since Zelensky admitted guilt. The day after admitting guilt, the operator’s wife Natalya reported that he refused a lawyer “for personal reasons.”

Police experts found calls for extremism in Zelensky’s tweets about the self-immolation of Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina, including in the phrase “Let’s ******* [beat] this lack of power.”

“I hate you, Putin, Peskov, Volodin, and other scum, you are behind this. You can consider my words a call, but you bitch bastards are unworthy of life,” - .