On Wednesday, June 10, the Lefortovo District Court extended the detention to political prisoner Ivan Yatskin, who is accused of allegedly high treason in the form of espionage. He will remain in jail until August 16, 2020. The trial of the political prisoner took place without his participation. This was reported by lawyer Nikolai Polozov via his Facebook page.
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“The trial against Ivan Yatskin took place without his participation. In general. Even without participation by video link. What is most peculiar, as an argument why Yatskin was not brought to court, the investigator and the prosecutor presented the opinion of the doctor of the Lefortovo detention center, which cited an unfavorable epidemiological situation in Moscow and did not recommend taking Ivan Yatskin from the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center to the court,”,- the message said.
We remind that in early December 2019, Russian security forces in the occupied Crimea detained a resident of Simferopol, Ivan Yatskin, on charges of allegedly high treason. Subsequently, the man was transferred to Moscow. He was arrested until March 16, 2020. Ivan Yatskin’s lawyer, Nikolai Polozov, signed a non-disclosure agreement on the so-called case.