Moscow court orders pre-trial detention of political analyst Aleksandr Kinev in drug case
At the end of September, a Moscow court ordered pre-trial detention for political analyst Aleksandr Kinev, who is accused of drug production, sale and smuggling. No public evidence linking him to drugs has been presented.
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A court in Moscow, the Russian capital, ruled at the end of September that political analyst Aleksandr Kinev must be held in custody until trial. He is accused of illegal production, sale and smuggling of narcotics on a large scale.
The offence carries a prison sentence of 10 to 20 years.
However, no public evidence has been presented to show that Kinev had any connection to drugs. The source material gives no other details of the case.
The case matters because the charge is a grave one, while publicly available information about its basis is very limited.
