Mr. Moskalev at a court hearing in the city of Efremov, Tula Region, Russia, March 27, Photo: SOTA
A who fled the country after being imprisoned for an anti-war drawing his daughter drew at school, has been extradited back to Russia, the monitoring team said on Wednesday.
Aleksey Moskalev, 54-year-old man Father- a loner from the southern Moscow town of Yefremov escaped from house arrest in late March, just before a Russian court sentenced him to two years in prison for «discrediting». Russian army.
Later detained in neighboring Belarus.
The case has attracted nationwide attention as Moscow cracks down on criticism of the offensive in Ukraine.
«Aleksei Moskalev was extradited from Belarus to Russia,» human rights group OVD-Info said.
Mr. Moskalev's lawyer Vladimir Biliyenko told AFP that he could not immediately confirm the OVD's report and had no information about his whereabouts .
Moskalev first came to the attention of the authorities last year after his daughter Maria drew a picture at school of rockets beside a Russian flag heading towards a woman with a child standing near a Ukrainian flag.
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Her headmistress called the police.
A supporter of Mr. Moskalev attends a court hearing regarding his daughter's parental rights. Photo: MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Authorities said they found Mr. Moskalev's social media comments critical of Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.
He was eventually tried for allegedly criticizing Russia's attack on Ukraine and fled from under house arrest.
Since early March, Mr. Moskalev has been separated from his 13-year-old daughter, who was taken from him and placed in a local juvenile detention center.
Last week, Russian officials said the girl handed her over to her estranged mother.
Moskalev also faces the loss of parental rights in a separate trial.
He was due to appear in a Russian court last week for a custody hearing, but the court said it did not know where he was.
A new hearing is scheduled for April 20.
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