Four searches were carried out in Sasha Skochilenko's cell in two weeks; during one of them, the SIZO employees confiscated a portion of medicines

In the cell of 32-year-old artist and musician Sasha Skochilenko, who is in St. Petersburg SIZO-5 on the case of anti-war price tags, four searches have been carried out over the past two weeks. This was announced by her defender Margarita Kislyakova.

“The last time the search was carried out, when Sasha was not in the cell. All Sasha's things were scattered on the floor, they trampled on her letters, crushed her earplugs, tore one of the books, confiscated the daily portion of medicines. Cleaning up after this "event" took two hours,” the defender said. Usually cells are searched twice a month, Kislyakova stressed.

When the artist was taken to the next court session, officers of the operational department came to her neighbor and demanded to withdraw the complaint about the searches, Kislyakova added.

In addition, it was practically forbidden to read in SIZO-5. “As we understand, for about a couple of weeks, by order of the city prosecutor, it was forbidden to transfer all literature in parcels, parcels, or in any other way in the pre-trial detention center. At the same time, it was forbidden to keep more than three books per person in the cells,” Kislyakova explained.

According to the defender, there is no hot water in the showers of the pre-trial detention center, while women were forbidden to carry heated water from the cells in buckets, citing “security considerations”

Skochilenko was arrested on April 13, 2022 due to the replacement of price tags with anti-war leaflets at Perekrestok (paragraph “e” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). She faces up to 10 years in prison. As reported by Paper, a 72-year-old customer wrote a complaint against Skochilenko.

The Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St. Petersburg is considering the case. On July 6, the artist’s arrest was again extended, despite the defense’s arguments about her state of health: Skochilenko has PTSD, celiac disease, and heart disease.

Article«I play with matchboxes and tins.» Sasha Skochilenko — about eight months of arrest for anti-war price tags and support in a pre-trial detention center