A court in Moscow ordered 15 days of arrest for former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky, who came to the funeral of Alexei Navalny yesterday. His wife informed the OVD-Info project about this.
After being detained during the funeral, Zelensky was left overnight at the Maryino district police station and then taken to court. He was sentenced under an article on violating the rules of rallies (20.2 Code of Administrative Offenses ).
According to OVD-Info, a total of 14 people were detained in Moscow during the farewell ceremony for the oppositionist yesterday at the Borisov Cemetery, and across the country that day security forces detained 103 people.
In 2021, Pavel Zelensky was convicted of calls for extremism for a tweet about the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina. The FBK operator was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center in January 2021, but after pleading guilty, he was transferred to house arrest. He subsequently received two years in prison.
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When a case of “extremism” was opened against Navalny and his associates, Zelensky, like the heads of Navalny’s headquarters, was a suspect in the case, but , in his own words, after “repentance, testifying and cooperation with the investigation,” he simply became a witness in the case. In this status, having been released from the colony, he testified against the former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, and the former coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Tomsk, Ksenia Fadeeva.
After the release of Pavel Zelensky, administrative supervision was established over him — once in For two months he goes to report to the police. Violations of the terms of administrative supervision may result in criminal prosecution.