The HRS asks SE of the Russian Federation to check on the case against Svetlana Davydova
The presidential Council on human rights (HRC) has sent a request to the Prosecutor General With a request to check on the fact of a Criminal case and the arrest of a resident of the Smolensk region Svetlana Davydova, suspected of committing treason.
on Thursday, it was announced that the Lefortovo court of Moscow issued a warrant for detention until 19 March Svetlana Davydova, suspected of espionage. According to the newspaper " Kommersant ", arrested in April last year got in touch With the Ukrainian Embassy and said that a military unit is very close to her home " empty ". In addition, it is assumed that the soldiers were likely to be sent to Donetsk. Currently Davydov is in jail Lefortovo against her prosecuted under the criminal code after the fact of treason, informs journal.
"Based on the disposition of Art. 275 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation ( "treason"), questions arise about the validity of such qualifications action S. Davydova. A further concern was elected as a preventive measure of arrest for mothers with many children, raising seven children, the youngest of whom was only two months ", - says the statement of the head of the human rights Council Mikhail Fedotov, released on the last working day of the week on the Internet office of the Council.
The HRC requested the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika " to give an indication to check upon excitation against S. Davydova Criminal case and the election in relation to preventive measures as arrest ".