MOSCOW, June 16 (RAPSI) – Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday extended house arrest for four defendants in a case over violation of sanitary norms at an unauthorized rally held in Moscow in winter, the court’s press service told RAPSI.

Thus, employees of Alexey Navalny’s foundation Kira Yarmysh and Oleg Stepanov are ordered to stay under house arrest until July 30 and 28 respectively, house arrest of Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina is extended until July 28 and municipal lawmaker Dmitry Baranovsky will remain under house arrest until July 31.

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