The judge in the Skochylenko case postponed the hearing due to applause

In the Vasileostrovsky court of St. Petersburg, where the trial in the case of the artist Sasha Skochylenko is taking place, judge Oksana Demyasheva left the courtroom because, in her opinion, the audience applauded the defendant’s lawyer too loudly. The judge first required those present to leave the hall, and then postponed the hearing to November 14.

The report of “Sota” notes that the applause that prevented Demyasheva was heard after Yana Nepovinnova, Skochylenko’s lawyer, stated in her speech that this court was an “examination of humanity” and the judge “got a chance to pass it.”

Earlier, the prosecutor’s office requested a sentence of eight years in prison for Sasha Skochylenko.

• Artist and activist Sasha Skochylenko has been in a pre-trial detention center since April last year. She is accused of spreading fakes about the Russian army. The reason was that in the “Perekrestok” store, Skochylenko pasted stickers on the price tags with information about the shelling of the Mariupol drama theater by the Russian military and the deaths of civilians. The artist acknowledged the fact of distributing the stickers, but stated that the information on them is not false, and therefore she does not consider herself guilty.
• The Skochylenko case is being heard in the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg. As Mediazon reports, at the nineteenth hearing, which took place on October 11, the accused cried for the first time: because Judge Demyasheva and prosecutor Gladyshev did not allow her to change the batteries in the heart monitor at first (the artist has a heart defect), and then they refused her to eat.