Anarchist Ilya Romanov was taken away from pre-trial detention center-1 in Saransk

Nizhny Novgorod anarchist Ilya Romanov, serving a sentence for preparing a terrorist attack, was taken away from Saransk. Mikhail Pulin, an activist of the Association of Popular Resistance, reported this to the hotline and received a letter from Romanov.

SIZO-1OVD-InfoIn the message, the prisoner said that he was “ordered to be taken to a colony,” but he doesn’t know where exactly. Pulin noted that after this he tried to send letters to Romanov in Saransk, but received messages that “the addressee had dropped out.”

In July it became known that Romanov was being brought to court under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code (calls for terrorist activities). According to investigators, in May 2017, Romanov, while in prison hospital No. 21, published a video “Invitation to Jihad” on the Voldemar Putiniana Facebook page.

transferred the matter. This video with the logo (of Caucasian Islamists) with captions in Hebrew shows women in Muslim clothing in the forest and with weapons, speaking and calling to join the “women’s battalions” fighting “in the path of Allah.”

“Imam-TV” Internet project in Russian Romanov denies that he has anything to do with this video, emphasizing that he is a person extremely far from Islam.

published details of this case.

OVD-Info Elena Kondrakhina on Facebook that on July 17 Romanov was going to be transferred to. He himself wrote about this to her in a letter. The anarchist noted that after some time he should be transported back.

UPD 12 August 20:52 told IK-22 - The first was initiated after an explosion on the night of October 26, 2013 in a park in Nizhny Novgorod. As a result of the explosion, Romanov lost his hand. According to him, a firecracker exploded in his hands. The prosecution, in turn, argued that he was preparing a terrorist attack. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to a fine of 110 thousand rubles and nine years in prison. case against Romanov - The terrorist motive for Romanov's actions is a consequence of two files allegedly found on his computer. The first file contains a misspelled insult to representatives of local authorities (Romanov is a publicist, his texts have been published in left-wing magazines for years). The second file is the release of the neo-Nazi publication “Aryan Terror. Magazine on practical training of white terrorists.” Romanov insists that both files were recorded on his computer by law enforcement officers. proves 1980s