Lev Skoryakin
Lev Skoryakin, born 1999, Moscow. Charges: Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)); “The case of Lev Skoryakin”. Sentence (December 13, 2023): A fine of 500,000 roubles. The defendant was released from punishment due to the fact that he spent a lot of time in the… Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, June 27, 2022.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Entrepreneurs · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
A fine of 500,000 roubles. The defendant was released from punishment due to the fact that he spent a lot of time in the pre-trial detention centre
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he entered into a criminal conspiracy with Ruslan Abasov and unidentified persons. Then they placed a banner on the fence of the FSB building with the inscription "Happy Chekist Day", after which they lit firecrackers and threw one of them over the fence of the FSB building.
Latest event
December 13, 2023 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, June 27, 2022
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution ends
· Preventive measure: arrest in absentia
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
The case of Lev Skoryakin
Criminal case
The case of Lev Skoryakin
- Case number
- 01-0030/2023 (01-0490/2022)
Thematic group: "Happy chekist day" case
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 23 December 2021. Interrogations and confrontations took place during the next day. A minor participant of the action was also detained, who initially testified against Skoryakin, naming him as the organiser, but then recanted. The next day, the court decided to send Skoryakin to custody. On 13 July 2022, a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions was chosen. Skoryakin managed to leave Russia. In June 2023, he was detained in Bishkek and placed in a pre-trial detention centre, but in September he was released as the Kyrgyz Prosecutor General's Office refused to extradite him to Russia because he had requested political asylum. After his release from the pre-trial detention centre, the activist hsd a German ersatz passport issued, he received humanitarian protection from Germany and was ready to go there. On 13 October, the day of Vladimir Putin's visit to the summit in Kyrgyzstan, Skoryakin was detained by officers of the country's State Committee for National Security. The activist was held for two hours in the office of the security service and released after his Russian passport was confiscated.
Skoryakin was detained again on 16 October. According to him, the law enforcers drove him around the city by car. They did not take away the activist's phone, but he could not contact anyone. In the early morning of 17 October Skoryakin was locked alone in the car, handcuffed and his phone was confiscated. Later that morning, he was handed over to the Russian authorities. The two Russian law enforcers did not identify themselves; they had with them a laptop, which the activist had left in a hostel in Bishkek. They put him on a plane and kept him handcuffed during the flight. At Moscow's Domodedovo airport he was taken for interrogation in a windowless room. During the interrogation, two FSB officers beat him on his chest, head and legs. After that, Skoryakin was placed in an investigative isolator.
On 13 December 2023, Skoryakin was sentenced to a fine of 500,000 rubles and released from payment due to his detention.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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