Publicist Robert Zagreev, sentenced to three years in prison, was released

Bashkir publicist Robert Zagreev, sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony for publishing an article, was released from the village of Ikovka, Kurgan Region. About this “Idel. Realities." According to the publication, Zagreev has already arrived in Bashkortostan.

Because of IK-6, Zagreev was found guilty of public calls for terrorist activities (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The investigation considered that in 2012 the convict published on websites allegedly belonging to him the article “Akhir Zaman” (“End of the World”) by Airat Dilmukhametov, who was previously sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony on a similar charge. In March 2013, the court, at the request of the prosecutor’s office, declared the article “Akhir Zaman” extremist.

According to investigators, this text was written in order to unite people “to forcibly change the constitutional system of the Russian Federation and build a state separate from Russia - ‘Bashkurdistan’.”

“Memorial”, which recognized Zagreev as a political prisoner, however, in the text of the article there are no direct calls to take part in the global jihad in Russia.

draws attention Before being taken into custody, Robert Zagreev worked as the editor of several independent websites and newspapers, was one of the leaders of the Bashkir opposition and advocated the development of local self-government in Bashkortostan.