Former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Barnaul sentenced to 9 years in prison

The Central District Court of Barnaul sentenced Vadim Ostanin, the former coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, to nine years in a general regime penal colony. FBK director Ivan Zhdanov reported this on his Telegram channel.

Ostanin was found guilty under articles on organizing an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and on participating in a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code).

A man about his persecution to the telegram channel "Sirena": "I am being prosecuted essentially for the fact that I worked as a coordinator for Navalny's headquarters even before the headquarters and the FBK were recognized as extremist organizations. In addition, the investigation believes that I continued to work in Navalny's team, allegedly in a conspiratorial manner. However, there is no evidence of this in the case."

told As part of the criminal case, Ostanin was detained at the end of 2021. At that time, he was given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions, but in March 2022, the man was taken into custody. The investigation accused him of attempting to escape, Mediazona.

elected took wrote At the end of March of this year, Ostanin spoke about the pressure of the investigation and the deterioration of his health due to the conditions in the pretrial detention center No. 1 of the Altai Territory, which he called torture. The man spent a long time in a punishment cell - a basement with a window covered with garbage, without hot water and a place to sleep. The cell was flooded with water once, and he had to share it with rats, spiders and ants, Ostanin said.

In April, the man told his comrades that his medications, personal hygiene items, and books were taken away from him in the pretrial detention center. Ostanin, according to him, was repeatedly denied medications, which caused his health to deteriorate.

handed over - In June 2021, the court declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Citizens' Rights Protection Foundation (CRPF) and Alexei Navalny's headquarters extremist organizations. In September, the Investigative Committee reported that a criminal case on an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) was opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists. admitted - As part of this case, the former head of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Lilia Chanysheva, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, but later the prosecutor's office increased the term to 10 years. sentenced demanded - Navalny himself is currently in the strict-regime correctional colony No. 6 of the Vladimir Region, where he was placed after being sentenced in the fraud case (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code): nine years of imprisonment for the politician. However, the opposition leader continued to be persecuted in prison: in May, the court will consider the merits of the criminal case against Navalny, which includes six articles of the Criminal Code. The prosecutor sentenced the politician to 20 years in prison. He was appointed and asked for a special regime.