Mathematician Bogatov was released from house arrest

The Investigative Committee did not demand an extension of the house arrest of mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, accused of calling for terrorism and attempting to organize mass riots, told TASS. a law enforcement source

This information was confirmed to Mediazona by the mathematician’s lawyer Sarkis Darbinyan. He said that January 30 is the last day to file a petition to extend the preventive measure. The preventive measure expires on January 31.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow told TASS that the court had not received a petition to extend house arrest. At the end of October 2017, Bogatova’s house arrest was extended until January 31.

Earlier in January, an examination confirmed that Bogatov had nothing to do with the dissemination of calls for which he became involved in a criminal case.

Dmitry Bogatov was detained in early April in connection with calls for participation in the April 2 protest, distributed on the SysAdmins.ru forum. The defense emphasized that the mathematician Bogatov is the operator of the exit node of the Tor network, and, therefore, messages from another user of this network were published from his IP address.

On the third attempt, the Investigative Committee managed to get Bogatov arrested; in July, the mathematician was transferred to house arrest. He was accused of attempting to organize mass riots and public calls for terrorism (Part 1 of Article 30, Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code; Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

in support of Bogatov An international action was held a letter demanding his release to the Presidential Administration ; students and teachers of Moscow State University submitted .