MOSCOW, February 13. /TASS/. Moscow’s Troitsky Court has ruled not to consider a motion to expel Alicia Day, an American national that had been detained after walking a calf along Red Square, the court told TASS on Monday.
The motion hadn’t been prepared properly, according to the court’s press service.
"The court has found infractions in the materials that were submitted with respect to A. Day and returned them to the agency that had compiled them, the Interior Ministry," a court representative said, without elaborating.
The American was freed in the courtroom.
Day’s administrative arrest expired on Monday. But police detained her as she was walking out from a detention unit, then brought her to court. Police filed a report on the woman, stating she violated the rules regulating foreigners’ entry to, and stay in Russia. The offense is punishable by a fine, with or without deportation. The court materials that were presented to court said Day stayed in Russia without registering her place of residency. She was unaware that was required by law. She earlier said she had entered Russia on a tourist visa.
Several days ago, law enforcement officers arrested a woman walking a calf she purchased online and shouting the slogan "Animals are not food" in the capital’s central square where any public events are prohibited. Moscow’s Tverskoy Court imposed a jail term of 13 days and a 20,000-ruble ($286) fine on her for resisting arrest.
The animal rights activist pleaded guilty. According to her, her actions were not politically motivated.
Day also said she kept seven piglets and three calves at her shelter, including the one she was detained with. Last year, the activist resided in Warsaw where she kept a pet lamb, and back in 2019 she rescued a pig in London and kept it in her apartment.