Alexei Knedlyakovsky. Photo RFE/RL

25 January 2017, 15:26

Court upholds Alexei Knedlyakovsky's arrest

The Krasnodar Regional Court has dismissed the appeal field against the arrest of Alexei Knedlyakovsky, who was sentenced after he posted in social networks a photo of a monument to Dzerzhinsky with a Catholic cross attached it. Advocate Alexander Popkov has announced his intention to challenge the Court's decision at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

"We initially had no hope for the Russian courts. From the very beginning we intended to appeal to the ECtHR," stated the advocate as quoted by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

It should be noted that Chirikov and Knedlyakovsky declared hunger strike in the course of their arrests. On December 28, 2016, it became known that Chirikov stopped his hunger strike because of deterioration of his health state. On December 30, Alexei Knedlyakovsky also stopped his hunger strike.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

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