Margarita Nikolaevna KOTOVA

Margarita Kotova is a judge of the Moscow City Court. She was a judge of the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow until 2022. In her former capacity, Judge Margarita Kotova found Alexei Navalny guilty in a court inside the maximum-security prison in Pokrov, 100 km east of Moscow where he is already serving a 2,5 -year sentence for violating parole while in recovery from poisoning. She sentenced Alexei Navalny to 9 years imprisonment in a maximum-security colony with a fine of 1,2 million RUB on a trumped-up case of fraud and insult to the court. Alexei Navalny was also accused of fraud in relation to donations and of insulting a judge. She also extended pre-trial detention for a man under false motives for his pro-Ukrainian views in breach of his rights of defence. Therefore, Margarita Kotova is responsible for serious violations of the right of defence and of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, and for activities seriously undermining the rule of law in Russia.

+ 7-926-288-0049 - Margarita Kotova est juge du tribunal municipal de Moscou. Elle a été juge au tribunal du district de Lefortovsky de Moscou jusqu’en 2022. Dans ses précédentes fonctions, le juge Margarita Kotova a reconnu Alexei Navalny coupable dans l’enceinte de la prison de sécurité maximale de Pokrov, à 100 km à l’est de Moscou, où il purgeait déjà une peine d’emprisonnement de deux ans et demi pour avoir enfreint les conditions de sa libération conditionnelle alors qu’il se remettait de son empoisonnement. Elle a condamné Alexei Navalny à neuf ans d’emprisonnement dans une colonie pénitentiaire de sécurité maximale, ainsi qu’à une amende de 1,2 million de RUB, pour escroquerie et outrage à magistrat, dans un dossier forgé de toutes pièces. Alexei Navalny a également été accusé de fraude en lien avec des dons et d’avoir insulté un juge. Elle a par ailleurs placé un homme en détention provisoire pour des motifs fallacieux en raison de ses opinions pro-ukrainiennes, en violation de ses droits de la défense. Par conséquent, Margarita Kotova est responsable de graves violations du droit de la défense et du droit à la liberté d’opinion et d’expression, ainsi que de la répression de la société civile et de l’opposition démocratique, et d’activités portant gravement atteinte à l’état de droit en Russie.

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Judge of the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow. She extended the arrest of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian activist Alexander Kolchenko. Responsible for the criminal prosecution of citizens of the Russian Federation who oppose the current political regime in Russia, in particular, sentenced Alexei Navalny to 9 years in a strict regime colony on a fabricated case of fraud and contempt of court. Elena Korobkova is the head of the Department for the Execution of Sentences not Related to the Isolation of Convicts from Society. In 2020, Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent and as a result was hospitalised in a serious condition in Berlin, Germany. Due to his condition, he was unable to attend the inspection ordered by the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation. Following that event, on December 29, 2020, the Penitentiary Inspectorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow made a submission to the court to cancel Mr. Navalny’s suspended sentence and execute the sentence imposed by the court. Elena Korobkova, as a representative of FSIN, demanded that the opposition activist’s suspended sentence be replaced with a custodial one.