The case of the arrested participant in the action against mobilization was returned to the investigator. Her son was sent to an orphanage

In Ulan-Ude, the prosecutor's office did not approve the indictment and returned to the investigator the criminal case of local activist, pensioner Natalya Filonova, who was arrested after protests against mobilization. Her son was sent to an orphanage, local human rights activist Nadezhda Nizovkina on her YouTube channel.

reports In a conversation with OVD-Info, Nizovkina clarified that she had not seen the relevant documents about the return of the case to the investigator - information about this was given to her by the activist’s relatives.

Filonova is accused of violence against a police officer: according to investigators, she hit one police officer 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.” The woman is also suspected of breaking one of the police officers' fingers.

hh. 1 and 2 tbsp. 318 of the Criminal Code “[The return of the case to the investigator] indicates that there are significant evidentiary gaps in the case: the evidence base is lame, it is weak and insufficient for an accusation,” Nizovkina noted.

She called the decision to return the case a “controversial fact”: according to her, it “gives a ghostly chance of acquittal”; At the same time, security forces may deliberately delay the process in order to keep Filonova in pre-trial detention.

Nizovkina, citing private sources, said that the prosecution intends to request a suspended sentence for Filonova.

In addition, the human rights activist said that Filonova’s 15-year-old adopted son was sent to an orphanage in the Barguzinsky district of Buryatia - now this is “his permanent location.”

“This is the final point in this whole chain. At first he was in the Petrovsk-Zabaikalsk hospital, then he was moved to the Ulan-Ude children’s rehabilitation center - closer to his permanent location,” Nizovkina noted.

In a conversation with 7x7, the human rights activist said that the teenager has many relatives - Filonova’s husband, her adult children, but “they are not allowed to take him.”

told The publication's journalists contacted the administration of the orphanage: they were informed that “the boy might be given to relatives; but for this, his relatives need to contact the guardianship authorities, who will make a decision.”

Episodes that Filonova is charged with in the criminal case, September 26, 2022: then the pensioner was in the building of the Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude. On this day, she and Nizovkina, who were detained at a rally against mobilization on September 24, were brought to meetings on administrative cases for repeated violation of the rules of participation in a rally (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). However, the court announced an evacuation, and the women were taken to the outside hearing in different cars.

occurred “At the moment when Filonov was taken alone in the car, she found herself outside, and at that moment she allegedly beat up two police officers at once,” Nizovkina.

broadcast . : In October 2022, Filonov was placed under house arrest But in November in a pre-trial detention center: this happened after a woman’s adopted son disappeared - she went to look for him with an electronic bracelet on her leg. Then Nizovkina was interrogated in the case as a witness, as a result of which she could no longer act as Filonova’s defense attorney.

placed sent In December, the guardianship authorities of Filonova's adopted son were taken to the hospital.

Placed - In May 2022, Filonov was sentenced to five days because she asked the bus driver to remove the letter Z posted on the bus. In response, he decided to disembark all the passengers and forcibly took the woman to the police station, where she was detained. In June, because of this situation, Filonova was fined 35 thousand rubles, having been found guilty of discrediting the Russian Army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). After being detained at a rally against mobilization on September 24, Filonova was charged with repeated violation of the rules of the rally. Subsequently, the court fined the woman 4 thousand rubles under the article on disobedience to police requirements (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). arrested fined stopped - 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 450 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. guide