Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the founder of Pussy Riot (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent), filed a criminal case with the Moscow Investigative Committee under the article on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the Criminal Code). . Information about this was reported by human rights activist Pavel Chikov. telegraph channel.
“Nadezhda Tolokonnikova became a defendant in a criminal case about humiliating the feelings of believers,” Chikov wrote.
He explained that the case is being investigated by the Meshchansky Interregional Department of Moscow TFR. Posts on social networks served as the basis for starting the case. Investigators conducted a series of searches.
Tolokonnikova has been living in the United States for the past few years.
In 2012, he was convicted of an act in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, together with Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich. She spent 1 year and 10 months in prison, she was released in December 2013.
Following the Pussy Riot case, Article 148 of the Penal Code was amended to criminalize insulting the feelings of believers.
Formerly philologist Andrei Desnitsky discretion the group’s action in the temple and the public reaction years after the events.