Publicist Boris Stomakhin is being transported to prison

Publicist Boris Stomakhin, convicted of publishing on the Internet, is being transported to prison. Human rights activist Gleb Edelev wrote about this on Facebook.

In June, the court toughened Stomakhin's sentence - approved his transfer to prison for the rest of his term - two years and four months. The decision was made on the recommendation of the head of correctional colony No. 10 of the Perm Territory. Previously, Stomakhin served his sentence there.

from the court three times The administration of IK-10 withdrew the idea of ​​transferring to prison, and the first judge herself refused to accept it because of mistakes.

In the colony, public defenders were not allowed to see the publicist , and he himself was repeatedly placed in a punishment cell.

• On April 20, 2014, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced Boris Stomakhin to three years in prison. Taking into account the previous sentence - six and a half years - the publicist received a total of seven years in a strict regime colony.

Stomakhin was found guilty of public incitement to terrorism under Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code for the material “Or blow up a couple of railway stations here…”. In the text, the author calls the terrorist attack in Volgograd in 2013 a fair retribution for Russia's crimes against the population of Chechnya. According to the lawyer, Stomakhin did not have access to the Internet, and he could not publish the article, as he was in pre-trial detention center No. 4 "Medvedkovo"