The investigation intends to ask that mathematician Dmitry Bogatov be placed under house arrest

The investigation into the case of mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, accused of inciting riots and terrorism in connection with an anonymous post about the need to go to Red Square, is going to ask the court to transfer him from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. about this on Facebook writes Lawyer Sargis Darbinyan, who represents the interests of Bogatov, . According to Darbinyan, the investigator Felix Sabanov called him and informed him of this intention.

The meeting, which should consider the petition of the investigation, is scheduled for July 24 at 12:30 in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, writes Darbinyan.

“Either the investigators finally listened to our arguments that Bogatov poses no danger to society and cannot interfere with the preliminary investigation, or they were afraid of the upcoming rally in Moscow on July 23 (“For Free Internet” - OVD-Info),” the lawyer writes .

Another lawyer for Bogatov, Aleksey Teptsov, cited by Meduza , claims that the investigation decided to make such a request in connection with the state of Bogatov's health, in response to the medical documents provided by the defense.

On July 18, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision to extend Bogatov's arrest until August 31.

Bogatov is accused of inciting mass riots because of calls to go to Red Square on April 2, 2017, which were posted by someone under the pseudonym "Ayrat Bashirov" on the SysAdmins.ru forum. The calls were sent from Bogatov's IP, but Bogatov is the exit node operator of the Tor network, which means that any user could write from his IP.

After Bogatov was charged with inciting mass riots in April, the court, contrary to the requirements of the investigation, did not take him into custody. Then two more articles were added to him - about calls to carry out terrorist activities or justify terrorism using the Internet and about preparing to organize mass riots, after which he was sent to a pre-trial detention center.