House arrest for mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov was extended until January 31

The Presnensky Court of Moscow granted the investigation's request to extend the house arrest of mathematics teacher Dmitry Bogatov until January 31 next year in the case of calls for terrorism, TASS reports .

At the same time, the court granted Bogatov’s request to visit doctors.

In court, the investigator motivated the request to extend the period of house arrest by the fact that additional examinations are required to conduct an examination due to the complexity of the technical aspects of the investigation. “Recently, the accused not only appears normally for interrogations, but also calmly gives evidence, but he has a foreign passport, so we ask to extend the period of house arrest for three months,” said a representative of the investigation.

During the previous meeting to extend the period of detention, it became known that the proceedings in Bogatov’s case were being handled by Lieutenant Colonel of Department “E” Kirill Gennadievich Revakov .

Mathematics teacher and free software activist Dmitry Bogatov was detained on April 6 on suspicion of publishing under the pseudonym “Ayrat Bashirov” on the specialized forum SysAdmins.ru calls for mass unrest at the “April 2 protest” in Moscow . After the arrest, the posts were also classified as calls for terrorism.

The mathematician was arrested, but on July 24 he was transferred to house arrest. with the European Court of Human Rights . Bogatov’s defense filed a complaint against his detention

Bogatov denies guilt and points out that an exit node of the Tor network operated in his apartment . The Memorial human rights center recognized him as a political prisoner. “Mediazona” studied the publications that became the reason for the persecution of the programmer, and also presented the results of the investigation about the possible real author of those messages.