FSIN found Horynov, who was convicted of “fakes”, to be a fugitive

Former Moscow municipal deputy Alexey Horinov, convicted in the case of spreading fakes about the Russian army and serving a sentence in correctional colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov in the Vladimir region, was put on preventive registration as “prone to absconding.” In this regard, the colony employees check Horynov’s camera every two hours, including at night, recording the checks on the video recorder.

The reasons for registration are not reported. According to Horynov’s lawyers, the FSIN motivated such a decision “by the availability of some operational information”. It was adopted after the convict was transferred from the prison hospital, where he had been for almost two months, back to the colony.

On July 8 of last year, a court in Moscow sentenced the municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district, Alexei Horynov, to seven years in prison on the charge of spreading fakes about the Russian army. He was convicted for speaking at a meeting of the municipal council, which was attended by several people. During the meeting, the deputies, at the suggestion of Alexei Horynov, announced a minute of silence in memory of the victims of aggression in Ukraine. Horinov also noted that all efforts of civil society in Russia should be directed to stopping the war.

Horynov’s case is also being investigated by his colleague – municipal deputy Yelena Kotyonochkina. She managed to leave Russia. The court arrested her in absentia, and the law enforcement agencies declared Kotyonochkina an international wanted person.

• After the beginning of the full-scale armed invasion of the Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine, laws were introduced in Russia on criminal and administrative liability for so-called fakes about the Russian army and discrediting its actions. By the end of the year, the authorities opened more than 300 criminal cases under the relevant articles, essentially persecuting citizens for their anti-war stance. Dozens of sentences have already been handed down, many of them involving long terms of imprisonment. Thus, the opposition politician Ilya Yashin was sent to the colony for eight and a half years, and the journalist Maria Ponomarenko – for six.