A military court sent an activist from Irkutsk for compulsory treatment | News from Germany about Russia | DW

Dmitry Nadein, a civil activist from Irkutsk, was sent for compulsory treatment by the decision of the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Khabarovsk. The corresponding entry in the card on the court’s website on Monday, July 26, is reported by the Russian edition “Taiga.Info”.

As specified in the message, the investigation of the FSB in the Irkutsk region accused Nadein under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on justifying terrorism, in February 2021 he was arrested and then secretly taken to Khabarovsk, where the court is located.

According to the investigation, Nadein in 2019-2020 repeatedly published comments justifying the self-detonation of 17-year-old anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky on October 31, 2018 in the building of the Arkhangelsk regional FSB department, which was recognized as a terrorist act. According to journalists, this is a post on the Vkontakte social network.

The case of Svetlana Prokopyeva

On July 6, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, passed a year earlier by the 2nd Western District Military Court, which found her guilty “of justifying terrorism” and sentenced her to a fine of 500 thousand rubles. The prosecutor’s office requested 6 years in prison and 4 years of ban on professional activities.

In November 2018, Prokopyeva, on the air of the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio station, commented on the terrorist attack in Arkhangelsk, criticizing “the state, with a tough, more precisely, brutal law enforcement system, for which the main thing is to punish the offender.”

The case of Maxim Smolnikov

In May, a court in Khabarovsk sent political activist and artist Maksim Smolnikov, accused of publicly justifying terrorism, to jail for two months. According to his lawyer Konstantin Bubon, this is due to Smolnikov’s comments on the Vkontakte social network, dedicated to the terrorist attack in Arkhangelsk, as a result of which Mikhail Zhlobitsky was killed, and three FSB officers were wounded.

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