MOSCOW, September 6 (RAPSI) – The Moscow City Court has granted an appeal filed by the New Greatness (“Novoe Velichie”) movement’s activist Anna Pavlikova, releasing her from detention and putting under house arrest, RAPSI correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The defendant is to stay under house arrest until September 13.

Earlier, the Presidium of the court ruled to reconsider the appeal.

On August 17, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow granted a motion by investigators to release Pavlikova and another activist Maria Dubovik from jail. The defendants were placed under house arrest.

On August 16, the Supreme Court ordered the Moscow City Court’s Presidium to review an appeal against controversial detention of Pavlikova. Earlier, the court received complaints from the cabinet of Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner and the defendant’s lawyer.

Nine activists of the movement were arrested in March. Investigators stated that the defendants followed far-right ideas and that their leader claimed that he planned to establish a new order in Russia.

The New Greatness case became a subject of public controversy because the defense has information that the movement itself was organized by a law enforcement officer.

Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov visited Pavlikova in a detention center and noted that she only recently turned 18 and has several chronic illnesses.