The court left journalist Alexei Seregin in pretrial detention: he will be returned to Yoshkar-Ola.
A court in Yoshkar-Ola extended the pretrial detention of Mari El journalist Alexei Seregin for another two months, until January 4. During his transfer from Moscow, he ended up in a pretrial detention center in Chelyabinsk, more than a thousand kilometers from the capital.
City Court Yoshkar-Ola extended Arrest of an independent journalist from Mari El To Alexey Seregin for another two months, until January 4. The hearing was held via video link, and the judge rejected the defense's motion to transfer the accused to house arrest. The journalist participated in the hearing via video link from the pretrial detention center in Chelyabinsk, where he unexpectedly found himself during the transfer from Moscow.
Earlier Seregin about a month was at the Serbsky Institute in Moscow, where he was sent for an inpatient forensic psychiatric examination. The results of the examination are not yet known; they must be sent to the Investigative Committee's office for Mari ElThe journalist's acquaintances note that if doctors find him insane, he could face forced psychiatric treatment; otherwise, the investigation will continue as usual.
Seregin after the stage: without warm clothes and medicine
The arrestee's sudden appearance in the Urals raised serious concerns among his comrades: after Butyrka prison, Seregin found himself more than a thousand kilometers from Moscow and far from his native republic. The support group emphasized that even during the first stage of Kazan The journalist's warm clothes were stolen, and the Serbsky Institute deprived him of essential medications. He was never given the promised clothing in exchange, so he's enduring the cold weather with virtually no protection.
How the journalist was detained and what is he accused of?
How to Reported "NeMoskva" journalist Alexey Seregin was detained in Yoshkar-Ola in early June. According to the journalist himself, security forces beat him and tortured him with electric shocks, forcing him to unlock his phone. The initial reason for his arrest was a case of "justifying terrorism" due to an old social media comment mentioning Dzhokhara DudayevaThe journalist was later fined for "disobeying police orders" during his arrest.
The pressure on Seryogin continued in pretrial detention: in August, a second criminal case was opened against him for "failure to perform the duties of a foreign agent" due to a post that remained unmarked for several minutes. And in early September, a third charge was announced – for inciting hatred or enmity. The journalist is expected to be transferred back to Pretrial Detention Center No. 1 in Yoshkar-Ola in early November.
