The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence of shareholder Pavlo Krysevych

The Moscow City Court considered the appeal against the five-year prison sentence of shareholder Pavlo Krysevych and upheld it. This is reported by “Mediazona”.

According to the publication, only lawyer Leonid Solovyev and a few journalists were allowed into the courtroom. The rest were sent to the broadcasting hall. Krysevych asked the court to postpone the meeting in order to “participate in the elections.” His request was not granted.

In October 2022, a court in Moscow sentenced Krysevych to five years in a general regime colony under the article on hooliganism with the use of weapons. In June 2021, the then 20-year-old Krysevych went to Red Square and read a manifesto against political repression in Russia. After that, he took out a cooled pistol and shot twice into the air, and the third time into his head.

At the trial, Krysevych partially admitted guilt, but stated that he did not agree with the qualification of his actions. According to him, there should be no question about the use of weapons, since he used a cooled pistol, which is not capable of firing live cartridges. He demanded either to acquit him or to reclassify the case to an administrative article on petty hooliganism.

• Pavel Krysevych is an activist from St. Petersburg who held artistic actions in defense of political prisoners and against repression. The most famous was the ego action at the FSB building in November 2020. Then he put himself on the cross in the image of Jesus on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, and folders symbolizing criminal cases were burning at his feet.