MOSCOW, January 31 (RAPSI) – Prosecutors had filed an appeal with the Moscow City Court seeking to overturn a two-year-long prison sentence of well-known hematologist Elena Misyurina, the press-service of the Prosecutor General’s Office stated on Wednesday.

Prosecutors ask the court to return the criminal case back to them because of numerous violations committed in the course of the investigation. According to the Office’s statement, the conclusions of a lower court contradict the facts established during the hearings. Moreover, the medical expertise reports in the case contradict one another, whereas testimony provided by witnesses and experts has not been adequately assessed. The evidence in the case does not prove Misyurina’s guilt beyond reasonable doubt, the statement reads.

In 2013, Misyrina conducted a diagnostic procedure, bone marrow trephine biopsy, for a patient, who died soon afterwards. The court found the doctor guilty of violating safety regulations that led to the patient’s death. Misyrina denied wrongdoing and her defense insists that the procedure was not related to the tragedy.

Misyrina’s case caught public attention with many medical professionals expressing support for the defendant and saying that the procedure could not cause the patient’s death.

Earlier today, the Russian President’s Council for Human Rights stated that over 600 doctors asked it to intervene in this case.