Activist Mikhail Krieger was detained in Moscow for two months. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction.
Krieger will go to jail for 1 month and 28 days, he will be in custody until January 2023 due to an article posted on Facebook in 2020. The court session was held behind closed doors, the press and relatives were not allowed into the hall, despite petitions.
Krieger is a former deputy of the Tagansky District Council of Moscow. Since the early 1990s, he has been engaged in political activism: pickets in defense of political prisoners, speaks out in support of the politician Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg, and is on duty on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, where opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed. Since 2014, Krieger has been organizing rallies against the war in Ukraine. In 1991, during the August events, he and his wife Vera defended the White House.