Feminist Lelya Nordik and human rights activist Maria Malysheva were released from the St. Petersburg temporary detention facility (IVS). This is reported by the «Eighth Initiative Group».
They are suspects in the case of a false report of mining (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code). Whether Nordik and Malysheva took a written undertaking not to leave or an obligation to appear is not specified.
Earlier, activists Polina Titova and Yevgenia Smetankina, who are involved in the same case, were released under a written undertaking not to leave.
Nordik, Malysheva and other activists were killed on March 5 after mass searches in St. Petersburg and Vladimir. In the morning, security forces in different cities came to the activists, human rights activists and municipal deputies. Many of them opposed the war.
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