In St. Petersburg, the court canceled the decision on the preventive measure for the defendant in the case of burning an effigy

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the decision of the district court, which refused to send Sofya Semenova, a defendant in the case of burning a scarecrow dressed in camouflage uniform, to a pre-trial detention center. The case was sent for review to the court of first instance. Semyonova herself visited Russia at the end of March. This is what the Apology is about.

left reports The appeal was considered on the proposal of the prosecutor. The decision to refuse to place Semenova under arrest was made by the Vasileostrovsky District Court.

Semenova is charged with hooliganism motivated by political and ideological hatred, committed by a group of people (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on March 6, on Maslenitsa, she and Igor Maltsev burned an effigy in military uniform on the ice of the Malaya Neva. The effigy had the words “Take it” written on it; the action was dedicated to the demand to take the bodies of Russian soldiers killed during the “special operation” from Ukraine.

The next day, the activist was searched, after which she was taken for interrogation. The girl has been in the temporary detention center for almost two days. As a result, the court imposed a preventive measure on Semenova in the form of a ban on certain actions for two months, and on another defendant, Igor Maltsev, in a pre-trial detention center for the same period. On May 4, Maltsev was sentenced to detention until August 5.

passed passed elected sent extended Now, according to Semenova, she is safe in another country, but she will be able to return to Russia only when “the regime ends,” and her case is closed, and the activist herself is rehabilitated.

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