It was not possible to blame

The chairman of the branch of the Yabloko party in the Toroptsi of the Tver Region Vladimir Egorov is accused of part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism via the Internet). The lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina reported this to the Franes.

The previously emerging message "Mediazons" that Egorov was charged with article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (public calls for terrorism), Sidorkin explained by the fact that she was misunderstood. The lawyer emphasized that there was no question of re -qualification, on August 2, Egorov was initially charged with an “extremist” article.

On Wednesday, the judge of the Moscow District Court of Tver Valery Varashev extended the arrest of Egorov until November 19. Two examinations were appointed in the case - linguistic and psychiatric. Sidorkina emphasized that Egorov connects her persecution with the disclosure of his corruption facts.

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The case against Egorov was opened back in October 2016 . Then a search was held in the activist’s house. The reason for the opening of the case was the publication by Egorov in the Toroptsian citizens of the post with a photograph of Vladimir Putin and the call to “bring the Kremlin rat” administered by him. Now all the contents from the group are removed.

Egorov himself associated the persecution with the anti -corruption investigations that he published in his group. One of them concerned the illegal removal of sand from the quarries by the local company Spetsstroy, controlled by the head of the Toropetsky district, Alexander Brig, and the head of the Westwinsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Smirnov. In April, shortly after the publication of the investigation about Spetsstroy, the son of a police chief Andrei Smirnov, a stone broke a window in the house of Egorov. According to the human rights project Emigrussia, on June 13, Yegorov fled to Ukraine and asked for political asylum. The activist settled and got a job in Chernigov, and in the same place he turned to the migration service for the status.

On the night of June 24-25, unknown people set fire to Egorov’s house in Toropets. There were the remaining wife and minor daughter of the activist. One of the passers -by noticed a fire and caused firefighters, so the flame managed to extinguish in time.

On July 5, when Egorov was supposed to extend the certificate of contacting the asylum or get a refusal of status, SBU employees came to his house. They detained Egorov and took to the neutral strip of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the area of ​​the Ukrainian checkpoint "Senkovka". SBU employees told Egorov that he was denied refugee status, since supposedly Russia did not put him on the wanted list. According to Egorov, the Ukrainian border guards issued him as an illegally crossing the border without a passport and banned entry into the country for three years. However, later the SBU informed Gromadske TV reporters that Egorov was allegedly not deported and did not forbid him to enter Ukraine. According to the law, after refusing to grant refugee status, Egorov had five days to appeal such a decision.

Since then, the activist has been on a neutral strip for some time, and then moved to Belarus. In Minsk, he turned to the Office of the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees and asked human rights defenders to understand his situation.

On August 1, the Belarusian human rights organization Human Constanta reported on the loss of Egorova. According to human rights activists, from July 29, the opposition has stopped contacting them. As it became known, on July 28 to the hostel, where Egorov lived, employees of the Belarusian KGB came and detained the activist. On the same day before the detention, Yegorov managed to inform the human rights activists that he was put on the wanted list in Russia.

On July 31, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Minsk arrested a political emigrant for two days under article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Belarus (petty hooliganism).

On the evening of August 1, the investigator contacted Sidorkina and said that Yegorov was detained and was in Toropets.