Sentence to Yegor Zhukov appealed
The defense asks for the annulment of the verdict and termination of the criminal prosecution. On December 16, 2019, the head of the Agora International Human Rights Group, Pavel Chikov, announced that Leonid Solovyov, a lawyer for HSE student and video blogger Yegor Zhukov, had appealed the sentence handed down to his client on December 6, 2019 by the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow. The defense asks to cancel the verdict and stop the criminal prosecution of Zhukov.