Anastasia Vasillieva
- Criminal Code
- Article 236 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Restriction of liberty
- Date of verdict
- 2021-10-13
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 24 February 2021
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Case summary
Previously known as Anastasia Vasilieva. Chairperson of the independent trade union Alliance of Doctors, formerly Alexei Navalny's attending physician, PhD in Medicine.
On 27 January 2021, she was detained as part of a criminal case for violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, and her apartment was searched. On 29 January, the court sent her under house arrest. Later she was charged with incitement to violate the rules. On 25 February, the court replaced her preventive measure with prohibition on certain actions.
On 14 October, she was sentenced to a year of restrictriction of liberty.
Others charged under Article 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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