Moskalev, detained in Belarus, was found in the Smolensk pre-trial detention center
Russian Aleksey Moskalev, who was detained in Belarus in early April after trying to escape house arrest, has been extradited to Russia and is in a pre-trial detention center in Smolensk. This was reported to OVD-Info on Wednesday, May 3, by lawyer Vladimir Bilienko, who met with Moskalev. In Russia, a man was convicted in a case of repeated “discredit” of the army, initiated after his daughter’s anti-war cartoon.
Nothing has been reliably known about Moskalev’s whereabouts for over a month, notes OVD-Info. As his lawyers said, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and Belarus did not respond to his requests. On March 28, a court in the Tula region sentenced Moskalev to two years in prison. At the same time, the court announced that the man had escaped house arrest. On April 7, Moskalev was arrested in Belarus.
As he has now told his lawyer, during his imprisonment in Belarus he was severely beaten and kicked in the chest and back, a muscle in his right leg was torn out, and several blows were inflicted on the head, including slamming his head against the wall.
The case against Moskalev was opened after his daughter’s anti-war drawing
Moskalev’s daughter, sixth-grader Maria Moskaleva, drew an anti-war cartoon in April 2022 in class. After the teachers complained, FSB officials spoke with the girl. At first, a protocol was drawn up against Moskalev for “discrediting” the army because of comments in Odnoklassniki, and then a criminal case was opened for repeated “discrediting”.
Masha Moskaleva herself, after starting a criminal case against her father, was sent to a shelter. A few weeks later, the girl was taken away by her mother, who had been living in another region of Russia for the last few years and, in her own words, had not seen her daughter for several years.
Source: DW
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