The Materials on Corruption among the judges of the Glavred Blogschi extended the arrest.

Sochi, the Central District Court of Sochi extended until June 19 arrest the Blogsochi chief editor Alexander Valov, accused of extortion of 300 thousand from a local official. About this writes the "Caucasian knot".

According to the investigator, the accused can affect witnesses, dissolve information in the media or hide, since he has a Sochi registration.

At the hearing, the journalist expressed distrust of the composition of the court and announced his discharge. On his website, Blogsochi, Valov published materials on corruption among local judges. He connects his persecution with the desire to close the site.

In addition, Valov requested protection against "physical bullying in the IVS Armavir." The journalist said that he was put in a single camera, and his complaints did not reach the prosecutor's office. The judge did not listen to the details and advised the man to contact the prosecutor's office.

Now Alexander Valov is in the Krasnodar pre -trial detention center. There he kept a hunger strike and achieved to be given a mattress without bugs and stop daily searches.

• Valov was detained on January 19 after a search in his apartment. The investigation believes that he extorted 300 thousand from a deputy of the State Duma from the LDPR Yuri Napso. The NAPSO submitted a statement about this on January 19. The defense believes that the investigation did not provide evidence of Valov’s guilt.
• On January 21, the judge of the Central District Court of Sochi Ruslan Taigibov arrested a blogger until March 19, 2018. Valov demanded the discharge of the judge, since he wrote critical material about him and doubts Taigibov’s impartiality. The judge said he did not read this text.