Alexey Moskalev

Resident of the Tula region. Raised ornamental birds and kept a small household. Raised a teenage daughter alone. In the past, he had been convicted of theft, illegal imprisonment and ammunition possession.

After Moskalev's daughter drew a picture with Russian and Ukrainian flags and the inscriptions "No to war" and "Glory to Ukraine" during an art class, she and her father were taken to the police. Moskalev was found in "Odnoklassniki" a comment with the words "Russian army. Rapists near us" and drew up a protocol under the administrative article on discrediting the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences). On 25 April 2022, the court fined Moskalev 32 thousand rubles. Then, Moskalev and his daughter were interviewed by FSB officers at the school. After that, Moskalev took the girl out of school. On New Year's Eve, their house was searched and all of Moskalev's savings were taken away. He was taken for questioning to the FSB, and his daughter was taken to a "social institution". Moskalev said that during the interrogation he was beaten "with his head against the wall and the floor", locked in his office for two and a half hours and the Russian national anthem was played at full volume, which made his heart go bad. In the evening they were both released, and Moskalev and his daughter left Efremov. The reason for the initiation of criminal proceedings were publications in "Odnoklassniki", including publications about the murders of residents of Bucha and Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka. He himself denies having published these posts. According to Moskalev, his page was hacked several times. The director of the school where Moskalyov's daughter studied claims that no one called the police because of the drawing.

On March 1, 2023, Moskalev was detained in another city, where he moved with his daughter; the daughter was taken to a rehabilitation centre in Efremov. The next day Moskalev was sent under house arrest. They refused to give him his daughter. On 28 March Moskalev was sentenced to two years in a penal colony, the court ordered to hand over his daughter to the guardianship authorities. He was not present at the announcement of the verdict - according to the court spokesman, he ran away the night before the verdict. On the night of 30 March it was reported that Moskalev was detained in Minsk.

On 5 April, Moskalev's daughter was handed over to her mother, who refused to take the girl before the sentencing of her ex-husband. On 7 April it was officially reported that Moskalev was in the pre-trial detention centre in the Belarusian town of Zhodzina, about 60 kilometres from Minsk. On 12 April it became known that Moskalev was extradited to Russia. The court dismissed the case on restriction of parental rights of Moskalev and his ex-wife. The prosecutor appealed against the verdict, demanding to deprive Moskalev of the right to administer Internet resources for three years, as he had committed an offence in the armed conflict. In the meantime, it turned out that there was a new lawyer in the case, who was working under an agreement with a certain person, whom he refused to name. In his appeal against the verdict, this lawyer agreed with the court that Moskalev was guilty, but demanded to change the punishment to a non-custodial measure. On 3 May it turned out that Moskalev was in the pre-trial detention centre in Smolensk. He told the lawyer from IAB-Info that he had been severely beaten when detained in Belarus. According to him, it happened in the town of Smolevichi, about 40 kilometres from Minsk. He was kept in a temporary detention centre for two or three days, then about a week in the prison in Zhodzina, after which people in civilian clothes took him to Russia in a car without departmental markings. He spent two days in the Smolensk temporary detention centre, after which he was placed in the remand centre. Later, Moskalev was transferred to a pre-trial detention centre in Tula. After the support group published an appeal to write letters to Moskalev, the administration of the pre-trial detention centre suspended the processing of correspondence. On 14 June it became known that Moskalev's new lawyer withdrew his appeal. On 3 July, the court of appeal toughened Moskaliev's punishment by banning him from administering Internet resources for two years.

In the colony Moskalev was placed in the isolation cell five times in a row. The first time he was placed in the isolation cell for six days on 4 August - then the reason was that he allegedly did not get up immediately after rising. Then, on 10 August, the convict was sent to the isolation cell for 13 days because he had introduced himself inappropriately. The third time he was sent to the isolation cell for 15 days because he did not keep his hands behind his back when leaving the cell: the officer asked him to take out the leftovers. Moskalev could not remember the reason for the fourth punishment. The fifth time he was left in the detention centre because he leaned on his arm while sitting at the table - he was charged with "arranging a sleeping place at the table".

On 6 December 2023, the cassation court quashed the verdict and sent the case back to the appeal court: the ruling said that the trial and appeal courts had failed to pay attention to the fact that the experts who conducted the psychological and linguistic examination did not have the necessary education and qualifications. On 19 February 2024, the appeal court reduced the term to one year and ten months.

On 15 October 2024, Moskalev was released. He said that shortly before his release, FSB officers questioned people from his unit in the colony: they were interested in what Moskalev communicated with other prisoners.

According to Moskalev, immediately after his release, the police came to his house while he was away, and also asked acquaintances about him. Five days after his release, Moskalev and his daughter left Russia.