Lohers of persecution

In Ufa, the visiting session of the Moscow District Military Court sentenced publicist Robert Zagrev to three years in a maximum security colony, Radio Liberty reports . It is found guilty of public calls for terrorism (part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

Zagrev refused to admit guilt and announced the presence of a political order in his case. "The plot of this case is quite primitive - this is revenge for my speech on February 18, 2012, when during the inauguration of the mayor of Ufa I in the presence of the president (the Republic of Bashkiria Rustem. - Ed.) Khamitova seized the rostrum of the city council and demanded the appointment of direct elections of the mayor," the defendant said in the last word.

Ildar Tuktarov, who defended Zagrev, defended the sentence from commenting on the sentence, refused. He only noted that the appeal "will be served in the coming days."

According to the prosecution, in the fall of 2012, Zagrev published on his Internet resources the religious and political treatise "Akhir Zaman" ("Light-abscuration") attributed to Ayrat Dilmukhametov .

Dilmukhametov himself in the March of this year was convicted on charges of spreading Akhir Zaman by three years of strict regime under the same part 1 of Article 205.2. In July, the appellate instance upheld this sentence.

The regional headquarters of the FSB instituted the case on the fact of the publication of the treatise in July 2013. Earlier, in March of the same year, the Kirovsky district court of Ufa, at the request of the district prosecutor’s office, was recognized by Akhir Zaman with extremist material. In May, the Supreme Court of Bashkiria left this decision in force.

Initially, Zagrev went through one case with his colleague, however, due to the fact that he lived in Ukraine lately, the materials were allocated to separate production in his regard. In Russia, the publicist was put on the federal wanted list.

At the end of April 2015, Zagrev arrived in Ufa, planning to get a new passport in return for the expired and immediately return to Ukraine. However, he was detained right at the airport. Nevertheless, the publicist was not sent to the pre -trial detention center - initially he was placed under house arrest, and then released on a recognizance not to leave.

On October 21, at the first court session, Zagrev refused to guilty . “In the case, solid inconsistencies,” he told Radio Liberty. “I still have proved my non -involvement in the site, the creation and moderation of which the investigation ascribes to me.” At the same time, the publicist noted that, "given the political situation in the country, of course, there will be no excuse."

On April 19, 2011, Zagrev and Dilmukhametov were already sentenced to real terms for publication on the Internet. Both found guilty under part 2 of article 205.2 (public calls for terrorism using the media), part 2 of Article 280 (public calls for extremism through the media) and part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity). Dilmukhametov, who had two conditional criminal records under the 282nd article, received six years of colony-settlement, Zagrev was given three and a half years.

On October 7, 2011, the Supreme Court of Bashkiria re-qualified parts of 2 articles 205.2 and 280 in the affairs of Dilmukhametov and Zagrev to part 1, excluding the qualifying sign of the use of the media, and reduced the terms of up to three years and six months, respectively. On October 18, Zagrev was released. Dilmukhametov later achieved a reduction in a term of up to two years and freed himself in August 2012, completely serving two years of imprisonment.