MOSCOW, February 9 (RAPSI) – Investigators have filed a motion seeking to place Moscow’s municipal lawmaker Konstantin Yankauskas charged with incitement to violation of anti-coronavirus sanitary requirements during unauthorized rallies under house arrest, the Basmanny District Court’s press service has told RAPSI.

The defendant faces house arrest until March 23.

Earlier, several persons, including employees of a foundation established by Alexey Navalny, Lyubov Sobol and Oleg Stepanov, Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina and Navalny’s brother Oleg and Anastasia Vasilyeva, the head of the medical workers' union Alyans Vrachei (Doctors' Alliance), were put under house arrest as part of the same case.

According to police, coronavirus-positive persons ordered to isolation were identified among participants of the Moscow rally. A criminal case over violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules was opened over this fact.