The court upheld the FBK director's 10-day arrest for retweeting

The Moscow City Court upheld the arrest for 10 days of the director of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) Roman Rubanov. about this An FBK employee who was present at the meeting wrote on her Twitter.

Earlier, the Simonovsky District Court found Rubanov guilty of violating the rules for organizing a public event (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of the retweet of a text by Alexei Navalny calling for participation in the Voters' Strike action on January 28.

Rubanov himself insisted in court that law enforcement officers had not set the time for the retweet, which means he could have done it after the action. According to law enforcement documents, the director of FBK retweeted before the original tweet was written. Rubanov also stressed that he himself did not organize anything.

Andrey Bondarev, an employee of the Center for Combating Extremism, who compiled the report, spoke at the trial as a witness. To the question of the defender Ivan Zhdanov about how Bondarev determined that the retweet was made by Rubanov, the employee replied: “It came from the head office.” According to Mediazona, Zhdanov also had to explain to Bondarev the difference between a post and a repost on Twitter.

Roman Rubanov was detained on the night of February 20 at Sheremetyevo airport.

The head of the federal headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, stressed that "according to the same scheme" on January 30, were detained : "first a full customs inspection, and then a trip to the police department." the hosts of Navalny LIVE Kira Yarmysh and Ruslan Shaveddinov

Later, Volkov himself was also detained at the Sheremetyevo airport. The court arrested him for 30 days for retweets, finding him guilty of organizing the Voters' Strike action.