41 anti-war project asks the EU not to allow the extradition of Moskalev

More than 40 anti-war and human rights initiatives appealed to the European Union to prevent the extradition of Alexei Moskalev from Belarus to Russia and to ensure his transfer to a safe country.

Previously, a similar letter was written by “OVD-Info” and “Memorial”, now 39 more projects have expressed their solidarity with it, including the Vesna movement, the Sakharov movement “Peace. Progress. Human Rights” and “Feminist Anti-War Resistance”.

The authors of the appeal believe that the persecution of the Moskalyevs is “purely political and demonstrative in nature with the aim of intimidating dissidents.” It “violates both Russian legislation and the European Convention on Human Rights,” the letter says.

Alexei Moskalev, who was sentenced to two years in prison on the charge of repeatedly discrediting the Russian army, was detained in Minsk on March 30. He tried to escape from house arrest in Russia the day before the trial.

Now Moskalyov is in the pre-trial detention center of the Belarusian city of Zhodyno. His 13-year-old daughter Masha, whom he was raising alone, was first sent to an orphanage, and then given to her mother, who expressed her readiness to “repress” her thoughts about politics.

• In the spring of 2022, Masha made an anti-war drawing in class at school. The school principal contacted the police. The Moskalyovs’ apartment was searched.
• The police found in Moskalyov’s “Odnoklassniki” comments in support of Ukraine and caricatures of Russian President Vladimir Putin. After that, Moskalyov was first charged with an administrative article on the discrediting of the Russian army, fined 32 thousand rubles, and then a criminal case was opened on the article on the repeated discrediting of the Russian armed forces.