Chairman of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (POC) Georgy Volkov told socialbites.ca that together with the business ombudsman Tatyana Mineeva he visited the pre-trial detention center number 6 “Pechatniki”, where blogger Bitmama (real name Valery Fedyakin – socialbites.ca) is located told. ) is being kept with my toddler. According to him, Fedyakina is depressed, but she is trying to hold on. Volkov believes that the preventive measure against the girl should not be associated with a prison sentence, since there are other measures.
“She had a 2-3 month old baby in her arms. Such a sight, when a girl who has not committed a violent crime is in prison with her baby, evokes clear emotions in me – a young girl with a baby should not sit in a cell. She is trying to hold on psychologically, but it is clear that she is depressed by this situation. I believe that preventive measures should not be associated with deprivation of liberty. The state has the opportunity to control a person under house arrest: there is an electronic bracelet that does not give him the opportunity to violate this restrictive measure. FSIN always states that they actually have basic control. Our foreign passport was confiscated. So all possibilities are available. My opinion is that a girl should not be in a pre-trial detention center with a baby, unless it is completely impossible otherwise. If the crime is very serious, the legislator says that the child under 3 years of age will be kept with the mother, including in a pre-trial detention center, if the mother does not want to be separated from the child. “However, this is an excessively preventive measure included in our legislation,” he said.
According to Volkov, Fedyakina hopes to change the preventive measure for himself. Although special attention is paid to women with children in pre-trial detention centers, she noted that it is not easy to stay in the same cell with a child.
“He seems cheerful despite the fact that he is depressed. He hopes that the investigating authorities and the courts will still transfer them under a different preventive measure so that they do not end up in the same cell with the child. Being in the same cell with a child is very difficult not only morally, but also financially, daily and physically. Living conditions are not bad from the point of view of other prisoners, because mothers with babies receive special attention from the pre-trial detention center management and human rights activists. However, a mother being in the same cell with her baby raises many questions. It has been stated many times on every platform that our state is striving for humanization. This really happens, but in some cases we see some shortcomings. I hope they get fixed. “This is my stance from the perspective of a person, a parent and a human rights activist,” he explained.
Blogger Valeria Fedyakina, known as Bitmama, was detained in Moscow in September 2023. The girl was accused of fraud on a particularly large scale. According to the Baza Telegram channel, an acquaintance of the blogger accused him of cheating – Fedyakina took 6.7 billion rubles from him, promising to return them with a 1% bonus, but disappeared. The court sent the girl to a pre-trial detention center, even though she was six months pregnant at the time of her arrest.
Previously recognizedIt was stated that Blinovskaya, who was in the pre-trial detention center, was “ready to give everything” to see the children.