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The complaint against the arrest of Free People coordinator Sergei Ryzhov will be considered behind closed doors
The Moscow City Court decided to conduct a complaint against the arrest of Saratov oppositionist and coordinator of the Free People party Sergei Ryzhov behind closed doors. Apart from the lawyer, no one was allowed into the courtroom; Ryzhov himself participates in the trial via video link. Civil activist Elena Sannikova reported this by telephone.
OVD-Info December 20, 2017 Lefortovo Court of Moscow until April 2, 2018 Saratov oppositionist Sergei Ryzhov.
left him in custody on November 1, 2017, in the apartment of comrade Ryzhov, where the activist himself and law enforcement officers were located. A TNT bomb and five Molotov cocktails were seized from the apartment in the presence of witnesses. Ryzhov claims that these items were not in the premises before the arrest.
They broke in . First, the activist was inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating human dignity (Article 282 of the Criminal Code), and then it became known that he was preparing a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205, Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).
accused suspected According to the investigation, Ryzhov was planning to carry out a terrorist attack on November 4 and 5, and was looking for accomplices for this among activists of the Artpodgotovka movement. At the end of November he was sent to the Moscow pre-trial detention center "Lefortovo".