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A human rights activist arrested in the “fake” case complained about the lack of heating in his pretrial detention cell
The Cherepovets District Court rejected the claim of human rights activist from Cherepovets Gregory Marcus Severin Winter (former name Grigory Winter) for violation of conditions of detention in a pre-trial detention center. Information about this is in the “Movement Together” telegram channel.
According to Winter, the temperature in his solitary confinement cell drops to 4-6 degrees Celsius at night. The man also spoke about problems with nutrition. For example, on September 12, he spent almost the entire day in court, and when he returned to the pre-trial detention center, he was not provided with either lunch or dinner. As a result, the man, according to him, ate a piece of bread and drank a glass of cold water, since the sockets in the cell did not work.
Winter emphasized that he was diagnosed with diabetes, so the lack of regular nutrition threatens his health and life.
On September 3, from Winter’s colleagues about initiating a case under the article on “fake news” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against the human rights activist. What became the reason for initiating the case and under what part of the article it was instituted is still unknown.
became known This is not the first criminal prosecution of Gregory Marcus Severin Winter. In 2020, a man was searched in a criminal case for distributing fake news about coronavirus (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he wrote on VKontakte that prisoners from the Cherepovets pre-trial detention center were transported to the colony on a transit train that was traveling from St. Petersburg; at the same time, according to Winter, some of those being transferred had “clear signs” of coronavirus.
came After the search, a case was opened against the activist for insulting a government official (Article 319 of the Criminal Code): he was accused of uttering “gross obscene language” at the Investigative Committee and FSB officers conducting the search.
- Since February 24—the first day of the “special operation” in Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 230 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. guide - Article 207.3 to the Criminal Code in March 2022 - this is how the authorities responded to anti-war protests and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that did not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison.