Russian National Guard director calls for freeing one ‘Moscow case’ defendant and adding years to another’s prison sentence
Source: Meduza
Russian National Guard Director Viktor Zolotov has stated publicly that Pavel Ustinov, who was recently sentenced to 3.5 years for supposedly injuring a National Guardsman during his arrest, should be released from custody and sentenced to a year’s probation.
Zolotov says he’d like to add Ustinov’s 3.5 years to a five-year prison sentence imposed on Vladislav Sinitsa, who was convicted in early September of extremism with the threat of deadly violence for what officials say was a call for reprisal attacks against the children of law-enforcement officers.
For more about the cases against Ustinov and Sinitsa
- Five years for one tweet Moscow court sends blogger to prison for writing about police officers’ children
- Chanting in absolute silence Russian actor sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, after National Guard officer dislocates shoulder while arresting him at protest
- Moscow prosecutors reportedly want Pavel Ustinov released from jail. His prison sentence has sparked new protests.