Anastasia Goysan has secured the transfer of her case from Dagestan to Moscow.

Muscovite Anastasia Goysan, who was held in a Makhachkala pretrial detention center for over six months on charges of embezzlement, has secured the transfer of her case to the capital for trial.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," in April, Anastasia Goysan, who was then being held in a Makhachkala pretrial detention center, went on a hunger strike. She justified her protest by citing the fact that, for nine months, investigators had failed to provide her with the date when, according to their version, she was in Makhachkala in 2021 and took money from the victim, Aliyev. On April 10, he was released from custody. The investigator again filed a motion for Goysan's arrest in Dagestan, but a court in Makhachkala dismissed the case on May 27.

The case against Anastasia Goysan, brought against her in Dagestan, will be heard at her place of residence in Moscow, Shamil Khadulaev, head of the republic's Public Monitoring Commission, announced today.

He noted that Goysan's defense sought to have her case transferred to Moscow, and in August, the Russian Supreme Court made the corresponding decision. "An appeal was filed against this decision, which was heard on October 14th by the same Supreme Court. The outcome was that the court's decision was upheld," Khadulaev wrote.

In early October, Anastasia Goysan told her story in a video interview with the FATA MORGANA channel – how her ex-boyfriend orchestrated her criminal prosecution in Dagestan, leading to her spending seven months in pretrial detention. Journalist Regina Gadzhibalayeva published an excerpt from her interview on Instagram* on October 3rd.

According to Goysan, Dagestani human rights activists were the only ones who helped her and "continue to help to this day." During a routine visit to the pretrial detention center, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Public Monitoring Commission, and his colleague, Muslim Yunusov, noticed her haggard and emaciated appearance and took up her case.

"They noticed and weren't indifferent. When they heard my story, they were all horrified. They weren't surprised; they said, 'Our people could do something like that.' And they know the family (of my former partner), a very well-known family in Dagestan, but I didn't know about it myself. Shamil Khadulaev and Muslim Yunusov attended almost all of my trials. They were the first to publish my story on Telegram, helped me send a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, and involved a member of the Dagestan Republic's parliament (Saigidpasha Umahanov) in my case. They were a great help," Anastasia said.

The Muscovite noted that while in prison, the only way to "stay sane" was to read books, but there were problems with books in the Makhachkala pretrial detention center. Representatives of the Dagestan Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) ensured that books were given to her. "They stand for justice, and I am very grateful to them," Goysan concluded.