Oleg Orlov taken from pretrial detention center to unknown destination

Co-chairman of the Memorial Center, political prisoner Oleg Orlov was taken from pretrial detention center No. 2 in Syzran to an unknown destination. This was reported by his lawyer. The pretrial detention center refused to explain where and why the human rights activist was taken.

Recently, the Moscow City Court upheld Oleg Orlov's sentence on appeal: 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment in a general regime colony under the article on "repeated discrediting" the army.

The prosecutor called Orlov's sentence "lawful and justified." Lawyer Katerina Tertukhina noted that the actions of the defendant did not harm anyone and there was no motive of hatred and enmity in his text. In addition, all the linguistic experts who saw the crime are incompetent. One of them is a math teacher, another is a translator from English and German, and the third is an expert in "identifying individuals using speech phonograms." In February, Oleg Orlov was declared a foreign agent. At the same time, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow sentenced him to 2.5 years in prison under the article on "repeated discrediting" the army. The human rights activist was tried for an anti-war article in which he called Putin's regime "fascist." The investigation found in the article a motive of "ideological hostility to traditional Russian spiritual, moral and patriotic values," as well as a motive of hatred towards the social group "military personnel."

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