The arrest of the artist Skochylenko, accused of fakes, was extended until October

In St. Petersburg, the court extended the arrest of the artist Sasha Skochylenko until October 10 – she is accused of spreading fakes about the Russian army based on political hatred.

According to the SOTA Telegram channel, the court ignored the medical documents confirming the deterioration of the defendant’s health. She has been in pre-trial detention center since April last year.

The artist and activist Aleksandra Skochylenko is accused of pasting stickers on price tags in the “Perekrestok” store with information about the shelling of the Mariupol drama theater by the Russian military and the deaths of civilians. A criminal case was initiated after a denunciation of a St. Petersburg pensioner. The woman saw the price tags in the store and, according to her, was “extremely outraged by the slander” she read, because she is “very worried” about the Russian soldiers in Ukraine and “watches all the news about it.”

Skochylenko admitted the fact of distributing the stickers, but stated that the information on them is not false, and therefore she does not consider herself guilty.

It is known that the accused suffers from celiac disease – gluten intolerance, because of which she can eat only a certain set of products, which are not transferred to the pre-trial detention center. Because of this, Skochylenko’s health deteriorated noticeably within an hour.

The artist’s defense has repeatedly requested that she be placed under house arrest, but the prosecutor’s office claims that “the defendant is accused of a violent and dangerous crime, her relatives live abroad, there is no reason not to believe that she will not hide from the investigation and will not leave the country, which means there are no grounds for there is no mitigation of the repressive measures”. The court agrees with this.

Skochylenko faces up to 10 years in prison on the charges brought against him.