Human rights activists Ivan Astashin and Anya Kurbatova left Russia

Human rights activists Ivan Astashin and Anya Kurbatova left for Lithuania. Kurbatova talks about this on Facebook.

wrote: They both lived in St. Petersburg before leaving and were involved in supporting political prisoners.

Ivan Astashin was a defendant in the “case”, for which he served 9 years and 9 months in prison. At the end of his sentence, he will receive eight years of administrative supervision. After his release, he was required to report to the police department twice a month and was prohibited from staying outside his place of residence from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

ABTO was appointed at the end of February at an anti-war rally in Moscow. Later he was fined 10 thousand rubles under the article on violating the rules of participation in a public event (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). Immediately after the trial, a protocol was filed against the former political prisoner under the article on violation of administrative supervision (Article 19.24 of the Administrative Code).

detained , fined In July, an activist spoke about police pressure on the owner of the St. Petersburg apartment in which he rents a room: the security forces, according to him, demanded to stop renting out housing.

told - “The ABTO Case” is a criminal case about a series of arson attacks that the FSB classified as terrorist activity. Ten young people were involved in the case. In 2009, Ivan Astashin and his like-minded people threw a Molotov cocktail at the FSB department in the South-Western District of Moscow. The case opened in connection with this incident was combined with the case of arson of property of migrants and police departments, in which Astashin was not involved. The investigation called him the leader of the “Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization”; those involved in the case denied that such an organization existed in reality. In 2012, Astashin was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony. The sentence was later reduced to 9 years and 9 months.