First Court of General Apellate Jurisdiction has allowed the appeal filed by the General Prosecutor s Office of the Russian Federation against the decision of Moscow City Court to put embryologist Taras Ashitkov, reproductologist Yuliana Ivanova, obstetrician-gynecologist Lilia Panayoti, and director of European Center for Gestational Surrogacy Vladislav Melnikov, all charged with «trafficking» children born from gestational surrogates, under house arrest. They had been kept in SIZO (detention center) since July 2020. A year later Moscow City Court relaxed the restraint, but now the defendants have been detained again till October 14, 2021.