A magistrate court in Skopin, Ryazan region, sentenced Elena Morgunova to 14 days of administrative arrest, according to the rights group Slovo Zashchite, SotaVision, and Krusevich himself.
The protocol against Morgunova was drawn up just before her release from a special detention center, where she was serving a 10-day sentence for disobeying police orders. After the arrest ended, a detention center employee escorted her to an office where an operative officer, believing her pupils were dilated, suggested she undergo a medical examination.
Morgunova asked to wait for her lawyer, and the officer treated this as a refusal. She was then charged with refusing a medical examination. "An operative officer in the Skopin police department decided that a person released from a special detention center after 10 days could be under the influence of drugs," Krusevich wrote.
Morgunova was detained on August 28 in Skopin, Ryazan region: police stopped a bus carrying the woman, who had come to Russia to meet her family. Officers said they stopped the bus to check documents, but only checked Morgunova and her mother. They separately asked whether she had been to Paris. After she answered yes, both were taken off the bus and brought to a police station.
At the station, officers demanded she unlock her phone, and she refused. According to Morgunova's acquaintances, police then threatened to put her mother in a nearby cell and release their dog outside. Morgunova eventually unlocked the phone, and her mother and dog were let go. She was later sentenced to 10 days in jail for refusing to unlock the phone.
Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova said that after that, "six FSB officers arrived at the special detention center" where Morgunova was held and "committed some incredible, monstrous, inhumane acts aimed at complete lawlessness." A friend of the woman told SotaVision that Morgunova "feels fine" but had not eaten at the detention center because she was awaiting release.