The Federal Penitentiary Service demanded that Maria Alekhina be transferred from house arrest to a pretrial detention facility. The court refused

A representative of the Federal Penitentiary Service asked the Preobrazhensky Court to change the measure of restraint for Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina in the “sanitary case” from house arrest to detention.

“In his opinion, my client violated the conditions of house arrest when she went to the pharmacy and to the doctor,” Alyokhina’s lawyer Daniil Berman told TASS.

The FSIN representative was supported by the prosecutor's office, but the court refused to change the preventive measure.

• There are currently nine defendants in the "sanitary case": Maria Alyokhina, Lyubov Sobol, Oleg Stepanov, Anastasia Vasilyeva, Oleg Navalny, Kira Yarmysh, Nikolai Lyaskin, Konstantin Yankauskas, Dmitry Baranovsky and Lyusya Shteyn. On July 28, the prosecution demanded that Sobol be sentenced to two years of restricted freedom