Masha Moskalyova case

[1] This is the first time in the Russian Federation that a court, after imprisoning a parent for political reasons, left the child without a guardian.

The picture depicts an image of Russian missiles flying towards Ukrainian territory on the left while a woman stands in front of a child with an arm outstretched.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were on duty at the exit from the school, the girl quickly got her bearings and managed to escape home.

[6] On December 30, 2022, the Moskalyovs' apartment was searched, during which property and all cash were seized, and Aleksey himself was detained and interrogated by the FSB.

[16] On April 1, Russian human rights activists from the organizations "Memorial" and "OVD-Info" asked the Council of Europe and the European Commission to help prevent the extradition of Aleksey Moskalyov to Russia.

[22] On May 3, Aleksey Moskalyov was found in a detention center in Smolensk, where he told his lawyer that he was beaten during arrest in Belarus.

on 15 october 2024 Alexei Moskalev was released..[24] Despite the fact that the persecution began with the anti-war drawing of Masha Moskalyova, the first administrative protocol in April 2022 for "discrediting" the Russian army was drawn up due to a message on the Odnoklassniki social network, which, according to the law enforcement authorities, was written by Aleksey Moskalyov.

[1] Maria's teachers, who acted as witnesses for the prosecution, could not recall the content of the messages, only indicated that "the essence is one and the same - defamatory and discrediting."

Another witness — an employee of the company that connected the Internet in Moskalyov's apartment — confirmed that Aleksey's computer, which was seized during the search, was used to access his social media page.

[12] The representative of the European Commission, Peter Stano, compared the persecution of Aleksey Moskalyov with the policies of Joseph Stalin and called on Russia to respect its own constitution "instead of punishing children and parents for political reasons".