A court in St. Petersburg overturned the decision to deport Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani
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Afghan journalist Kobra Hassani, whom the Kirov District Court admitted guilty of attempting to illegally leave Russia for Europe will not be deported from Russia. The decision to cancel the execution of the Kirovsky District Court’s decision on the forced expulsion of Cobra Hassani from Russia was made by the Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg, the joint press service of the courts told Kommersant. During the meeting, the journalist’s lawyer explained that her client is now under a written undertaking not to leave the country and her deportation to Afghanistan is impossible.
In addition, Cobra Hassani was released from the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens in Krasnoe Selo (TSVSIG), where she spent more than eight months. The Krasnoselsky District Court of St. Petersburg rejected the bailiff’s petition to extend the woman’s stay in the Central Military Hospital.
“The court found that to date, that is, more than eight months, Kobra Hassani has been kept in the Central Military District of the Russian Federation, she is subject to a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave, and therefore her forced deportation from the territory of the Russian Federation is impossible, and her long-term detention Ms. Hassani in the center, despite the fact that the period of further detention is not determined, must be considered as an excessive restriction of her rights and freedoms,” it says message press service.
In May 2023, the Kirov District Court sentenced Kobra Hassani to forced deportation due to the lack of documents permitting stay in the Russian Federation (Part 3.1 of Article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). In court, the woman explained that she wanted to go to Poland, “made an agreement in Ukraine with a taxi driver, and he brought it to Russia.”
Yesterday, February 13, the Kirov District Court sentenced Kobra Hassani and 12 other Afghan citizens to two years in a penal colony for attempting to illegally move from Russia to Europe (Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in 2022 through one of the local ports. Taking into account the time spent in pre-trial detention, all defendants were released from serving their sentences.
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