In Ulan-Ude, security forces detained pensioner and local activist Natalya Filonova for two days, who is under house arrest under the article of violence against a police officer (). On November 17, she is scheduled to have a trial to change the preventive measure. Human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina reported this to OVD-Info.
hh. 1 and 2 tbsp. 318 of the Criminal Code on October 21, Filonov as a suspect under the article of violence against police officers, the next day she was put under house arrest.
detained sent According to investigators, on September 26, while in the courthouse, a woman hit one policeman with her hand and poked another in the face with a pen. The security forces consider the episode with the pen to be “violence dangerous to life and health,” since the object allegedly touched the policeman’s face close to the eye.
That day, Filonova and her defender Nizovkina were in the Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude because of their arrest at a protest against mobilization. The court was supposed to consider their cases of repeated violation of the rules of participation in the rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code), but the building was evacuated. Later, proceedings against Nizovkina and Filonova under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses were discontinued.
Nizovkina planned to represent Filonova’s interests in the criminal case, but the security forces assigned her the status of a witness. The human rights activist claims that the Investigative Committee officers tricked her out of the building during the interrogation of a trustee. Filonova was given an appointed lawyer, and she went on a hunger strike in protest.
In addition, according to Nizovkina, a new episode has been added to Filonova’s case. According to the information available to the human rights activist, Filonova is suspected of breaking the finger of one of the police officers.