A pensioner from Ulan-Ude, accused of attacking police officers, was hospitalized from the courtroom

A pensioner from Ulan-Ude, Natalya Filonova, accused of violence against a police officer ( Parts 1 and 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code ), was hospitalized from the courtroom during the hearing. This was reported by the telegram channel “People of Baikal” with reference to her lawyer Andrei Sokov.

The woman's blood pressure rose. The doctors, who were called to the Oktyabrsky District Court building, provided assistance to her for an hour and a half. Filonova was then taken to the hospital, as the doctor recommended that she not continue to participate in the meeting.

During this meeting, the defense petitioned to transfer the pensioner from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest, but the court refused. During the break, the woman said that FSB officers were interrogating her cellmates: according to her assumptions, to open a new criminal case against her.

In April, it turned out that Filonova was not receiving medical care in the pre-trial detention center, despite her health problems.

In November 2022, Filonova was sent into custody, this happened after the woman’s adopted son disappeared - she went to look for him with an electronic bracelet on her leg. Then, in protest against this decision, the pensioner went on a hunger strike. Before that, she was under house arrest.

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 Nadezhda Nizovkina were in the Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude because of their arrest at an anti-mobilization rally. In relation to both, the court was supposed to consider 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, hearings on administrative cases were held in the Sovetsky District Court. The proceedings against Nizovkina and Filonova under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses were terminated.

On November 15, the accused was detained pending a trial to change the preventive measure. A new episode has been added to Filonova’s case, Nizovkina OVD-Info reported. According to the information available to the human rights activist, Filonova is suspected of breaking the finger of one of the police officers involved in the case.

An acquaintance of Filonova also told OVD-Info that during the arrest, security forces threatened the pensioner and used force on her: the forensic medical examination report confirmed bruises on her hands.

• In December 2022, the guardianship authoritiesplaced Filonova’s adopted son in a hospital, and later in an orphanage, where he faced pressure.
• In May 2022, the court arrested Filonova for five days under articles of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code) and resisting the police (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code). The reason for this was the pensioner’s request to 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 dismissed the case, but fined the woman four thousand rubles under the article on disobedience to police demands (Article 19.3 of the Administrative Code).
• Since February 24, 2022—the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been holding anti-war protests every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 550 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our infographic .
• After the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian authorities began to react sharply to protest sentiments. The list of articles under which those who oppose the war are prosecuted is quite wide. Those involved in “anti-war cases” are often charged with hooliganism, vandalism, violence against government officials, and other violations. A significant element of pressure was also the articles introduced into the Criminal Code after the outbreak of hostilities - the spread of “fakes”