Overview
- The court annulled the guilty verdict and returned the case for a new hearing, according to the case record.
- Musaeva will remain in pretrial detention and await the new trial in a SIZO facility.
- Rights groups report this is the first time in her cases that the prosecutor disagreed with the lower court’s ruling.
- The original charges alleged she struck a penitentiary officer in the neck and tore off his left epaulette, allegations she denies.
- Earlier rulings included a July 2023 sentence of five and a half years later modified to a colony-settlement term, while advocates say her health has worsened in custody with diabetes, a hernia, and developing cataract.