Yashin was transferred from a pre -trial detention center without waiting for an appeal

Oppositionist Ilya Yashin, sentenced to 8.5 years in the colony on charges of distributing the so -called fakes about the army, was transferred from the Moscow pre -trial detention center to another region. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the responsible secretary of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission Alexei Melnikov.

When exactly Jashin was transferred and in which colony was not reported. Stage occurred before the court decision entered into legal force - lawyers filed an appeal against it.

On December 9, the philistine court of Moscow found Ilya Yashin guilty of spreading fakes about the Russian army in connection with his stream about the massacres of the inhabitants of the Ukrainian city of Buch. Yashin was sentenced to 8.5 years in a general regime colony. This is the most stringent verdict in the case of the case of the so -called fakes about the army. The limit of punishment under this article is 10 years.

The prosecutor requested 9 years in prison for him. Yashin insists on his innocence and the fact that his criminal prosecution is politically motivated. He is one of the most famous Russian oppositionists who did not leave the country.

According to the prosecution, Yashin committed a crime on April 7 during a direct broadcast on YouTube. The opposition gave evidence that the inhabitants of Buchi were killed by the Russian military, but also dismantled the arguments of the Russian side, which insists on his lack of involvement in the deaths of people and calls what happened fake.

• Ilya Yashin is one of the few opposition politicians who did not leave Russia after a wave of repressions against supporters of Alexei Navalny and the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" recognized Yashin as a political prisoner.