The Moscow City Court will consider the appeal against the arrest of Valery Kostenok on 21 August
Press Release, 15.08.2019
The Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against the preventive measure for Valery Kostenok, activist of the Yabloko party, on Wednesday, 21 August, at 12:30. The hearing will take place in the room No. 225.
Valery Kostenok is accused of participating in “mass-scale riots” in Moscow on 27 July. On 12 August, the Basmanny District Court imprisoned him for two months, despite the position of the public prosecutor offering house arrest for him and the guarantee of the Yabloko leaders, as well as a number of Moscow municipal deputies. Kostenok’s defense appealed this decision to the Moscow City Court.
20-year-old Valery Kostenok is a third-year student at Kosygin’s Russian State University, Faculty of Standardization and Metrology. He came to Yablopko in 2017. Valery participated in municipal elections, worked in the presidential campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky in 2018, and was a volunteer in the election headquarters of Kirill Goncharov, Yabloko candidate for deputies of the Moscow City Duma, in the summer of 2019.
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Posted: August 15th, 2019 under Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Moscow City Duma Elections 2019.