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Publicist Boris Stomakhin was taken to prison
Publicist Boris Stomakhin, convicted of calling for terrorism on the Internet, was taken to prison in the city of Balashov, Saratov region, after being detained. Human rights activist Gleb Edelev talks about this.
reports In June 2017, the court sentenced Stomakhin and approved his transfer to prison for the remainder of his sentence, until November 19, 2019. The decision was made on the proposal of the head of correctional colony No. 10 of the Perm Territory. Stomakhin previously served his sentence there.
tightened During a meeting with lawyer Margarita Rostoshinskaya, Stomakhin announced the existing threat to his life and health and asked to be transferred to a safe place. Stomakhin was in a common cell, where “the prisoners demanded that he observe thieves’ concepts: obey the superintendent, participate in the collection of the common fund.”
etc. “Initially, Boris in the pre-trial detention center was listed in the third building, where people like him are imprisoned, who cannot be kept in the general mass of prisoners,” says lawyer Rostoshinskaya.”
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 maximum security colony. Stomakhin was found guilty of public calls for 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 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, since he was in pre-trial detention center No. 4 “Medvedkovo”.