A deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, accused of showing a dildo to a teenager, will be sent to punishment cell

Communist Party MP Artem Samsonov, who is accused of showing a dildo to a teenager, will be sent to a punishment cell because he was awake at 10 p.m. This is reported by 7x7.

At the beginning of June, the pre-trial detention center staff filed a report against Samsonov because he did not go to bed on time. In response, the deputy wrote a statement asking to have a full-time bugler in the pre-trial detention center who would notify the arrested about the curfew. Samsonov noted that there was neither a clear signal nor a clock in the detention center.

“There is an obligation to make the bed after getting up and it is prohibited to make noise, but you cannot force a person to sleep,” the deputy emphasized during the commission at which the management of the pre-trial detention center decided to send him to a punishment cell.

In September 2022, Samsonov was sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security colony on charges of sexual assault against a person under fourteen years of age (clause “b”, part 4 of article 132 of the Criminal Code). On February 27, the regional court sent the case for a new trial and transferred the deputy from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. However, in early May, the cassation court overturned the decision to overturn the sentence, and Samsonov was again placed in isolation.

Currently, the Primorsky Regional Court is again considering an appeal against the original verdict of the trial court. Lawyer Natalya Kasilova, in an interview with PrimaMedia, previously emphasized that during the first consideration of the appeal, the regional court recognized a violation of Samsonov’s rights and issued a special ruling to the judges of the district court.

At the end of May, the court banned Samsonov from communicating with his parents, wife and son. In addition, in the pre-trial detention center they confiscated his medical cards, according to which the man could receive pills for hypertension. He needs to take these medications daily.

• A criminal case was opened against the deputy in November 2021: two months earlier, the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which he headed, won the elections to the regional parliament in 8 out of 11 polling stations in Vladivostok.
• According to investigators, the politician showed the dildo and told about the purpose of the object to an 11-year-old boy, with whose family he was at the same recreation center.