Moscow City Court Refuses to Release Former Pediatrician Buyanova from Pretrial Detention

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MOSCOW, July 15 The Moscow City Court refused to release pediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova, accused of spreading fake news about the Russian army, from pretrial detention, lawyer Oscar Cherdzhiev said.
“The Moscow City Court rejected our complaint,” the lawyer said.

According to Cherdzhiev, Buyanova will remain in pre-trial detention until November.

Last week, the Tushinsky Court of Moscow declared Buyanova’s dismissal from the capital’s clinic illegal and reinstated her at work, collecting from the defendant the average salary for forced absence — more than 900 thousand rubles.
The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to initiate a criminal case against Buyanova. A woman with a 7-year-old boy came to see Buyanova at the clinic. According to the Investigative Committee, having learned that the child was grieving for his father who died in the Northern Military District zone, the doctor reacted with ridicule, accompanying her reaction with statements about the lawful nature of the actions of the armed formations of Ukraine.
At first, Buyanova was under a ban on certain actions, then the investigation reclassified the charge to the more serious part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public dissemination for political and ideological reasons of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation), and the Tushinsky District Court arrested her. The trial began in May, at the first hearing Buyanova did not admit guilt.