The author of the song “Kill the President” had his arrest overturned in the case of calls for terrorism. But he's not free

The Moscow City Court canceled the arrest of musician Vyacheslav Eliseev on charges of incitement to terrorism because of the song "Kill the President." It is reported by MBH Media.

The case against Eliseev was opened on December 21, 2018. According to investigators, having recorded and published the song "Kill the President", the musician made "public calls for terrorist activities in the form of the assassination of the President of the Russian Federation" (part 1 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). According to the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group Agor Ilnur Sharapov, quoted by Mediazona, “the text does not contain a public danger, since it has the character of a literary hyperbole, and unrealizable at that.”

Despite the cancellation of the arrest in this case, Eliseev was not released. At the time of the accusation of incitement to terrorism, Eliseev had already been in a pre-trial detention center for more than two months on charges of attempted sale of drugs on a large scale (part 3 of article 30, clause “d” of part 4 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code). In October 2018, the musician was detained and found in possession of amphetamine, hashish and marijuana with a total weight of 50 grams. The musician claimed that he bought drugs for personal use. In March, the Babushkinsky District Court reclassified the charge to possession of drugs on a large scale (part 2 of article 228) and sentenced him to three years in prison.

“He has already been convicted under Article 228, but the investigator did such a feint: while he is in a pre-trial detention center, he was given a preventive measure in the case of incitement to terrorism. And the judge wrote in the decision that he could free himself and hide. He is under arrest until July 27, ”commented the lawyer of the accused in a conversation with MBKh Media.