RBC journalist will remain in custody until July 28

On July 19, the Khamovnichesky District Court extended the detention of RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov and Valery Parfenov until July 28, and Kirill Barabash until December 17. Thus, Sokolov and Parfyonov will be imprisoned for a year. This was reported on Twitter by the activist Besseind.

Sokolov, Parfyonov and Barabash, as well as Yuri Mukhin, who is under house arrest, are accused of organizing the activities of an extremist community - according to investigators, they were members of the People's Will Army, which is banned.

Today's meeting, scheduled for 12.00, began a few hours later and ended at about 22.00. According to the broadcast on Twitter, Parfenov spoke about the fabrication of the criminal case, violations during the investigation, for example, how investigator Talaeva “tried to conduct investigative actions with three of them at the same time, with one lawyer Chernyshov for all,” and witnesses during the “disclosure of the case materials” were “ dependent people from the hozband .” Investigator Talaeva claimed that the defendants refused to get acquainted with the case materials, Sokolov accused her of lying. Everyone demanded to be released from custody, no one pleads guilty. The court did not heed the arguments of the defendants.