 At the same hearing, Svetlana Bakhmina was given leave to appeal for a postponement of the prison term because she had small children.Consequently, on 19 September 2006 Svetlana Bakhmina appealed to the court for a deferral of her sentence for nine years (under Russian law, a person whose sentence is deferred in such a way can be allowed temporary liberty).The decision of the court was to refuse her appeal.