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In Moscow, the court extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for MP Alexei Gorinov
In Moscow, the Meshchansky District Court extended the term of detention in a pre-trial detention center for municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov until November 19. This was reported in the telegram channel in support of him.
At the courthouse, security forces detained two picketers who came to support the deputy. One of them had a poster with the inscription “Freedom for Alexei Gorinov.”
Gorinov is accused under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). On April 27, the deputy was taken into custody . The Moscow Helsinki Group reported that in the pre-trial detention center he was being kept in torture conditions: the cell where the man was placed held seven people, although it was designed for four; during his imprisonment he had to sleep on a concrete floor.
At first, his colleague Elena Kotenochkina, who is now outside Russia, was involved in the same case with Gorinov, but later Gorinov’s case was separated into a separate proceeding. The investigation believes that both deputies used their official positions to discredit the Russian military. In particular, at a meeting of the Council of Deputies on March 15, they called the “special operation” in Ukraine a war and argued that the Russian government wants to seize the territory of this country. A video of the meeting and speeches of the defendants in the case was published on the YouTube channel of the Krasnoselsky District.
In addition, according to the prosecution, the deputies stated that children were dying every day during the “special operation” and compared the Russian state to a fascist one.
The case also includes a video from March 16, which was recorded by Kotenochkina - according to investigators, it says “about a large number of military personnel undergoing compulsory military service; they are in the combat zone on the territory of Ukraine.” Kotenochkina was put on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia.
- Gorinov was detained on April 26; on the same day, security forces conducted searches in his apartment and in the building of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky District. Politician Ilya Yashin, his assistant Veronika Shulgina and district mayor Mikhail Biryukov were interrogated as witnesses. Kotenochkina’s husband was also summoned for questioning.
- According to Ilya Yashin, a criminal case was opened due to denunciations by State Duma deputies - Oleg Leonov from the New People faction and Alexander Khinshtein from United Russia.