Seven years in two pages of text

This text of the journalist, editor of the Sever. Real. Svetlana Prokopyeva, in solidarity with her today, many Russian publications are puppy.

I (we?) - Svetlana Prokopyeva. I am a journalist, and I can plant me for seven years for "justification of terrorism."

Almost a year ago, an explosion thundered in Arkhangelsk. The explosion is unexpected, stunning-17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobitsky undermined himself at the entrance to the FSB Office building in the Arkhangelsk region. A few seconds before he left a dying note in Telegram. He wrote that he was going on self -break, because "the FSB" was overlooked ", he would fabricate things and tortures people." This explosion in Arkhangelsk became the theme of my author’s column on the Echo of Moscow in Pskov radio under the title of “repression for the state”. On November 7, the program was aired, and the text version appeared on the website of the Pskov News Tape (PLN).

The prospect of a criminal case was clearly loyal, but we laughed and twisted a finger at the temple. What, to hell, an excuse for terrorism?

It passed for almost a month, and PLN and Ekhu Moscow flew warnings from Roskomnadzor, who saw in my text "signs of justification of terrorism." In early December, administrative protocols were drawn up, which in the magistrate cost two media in 350 thousand rubles of a fine. At the same time, the Pskov Investigative Committee began verification under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, in relation to me personally. The prospect of a criminal case was clearly loyal, but we laughed and twisted a finger at the temple. What, to hell, an excuse for terrorism? In his warnings, Roskomnadzor did not indicate a single specific phrase or even a word where there are “signs”, and could not indicate, because there are no such words there. As it turned out soon, this is not important.

On February 6, I opened the door to the call, and a dozen armed people in helmets pushed me with shields to the wall in the far room. So I found out that the criminal case was still opened. The search is a vile and humiliating procedure. Some strangers rummage in your things, others are indifferent to this. Old notes, cash receipts, letters with foreign stamps - everything suddenly acquires a suspicious, criminal hue, everything requires explanation. Your things, the most important and necessary - a laptop, a telephone - become "material evidence." Your colleagues and relatives can now easily be "accomplices."

The state deleted me from a normal life

On that day, I was actually robbed - they took three laptops, two phones, a recorder, flash drives. Six months later, they robbed again, blocking my accounts. I was just a “suspect” when I was included in the list of existing extremists and Rosfinmonitoring terrorists. Since then, I can not start a bank card in my name, I can not open a deposit or arrange a mortgage. The state deleted me from normal life.

They have to take away the last one - freedom. And on September 20, my procedural status has changed. Now I am officially accused of a crime under article 205.2, part 2 ("justification of terrorism using the media"). Punishment is a fine of up to a million rubles or imprisonment for up to seven years.

I do not admit my fault and consider my criminal case to banal revenge from the offended security forces. In that text, I assigned the responsibility for the Arkhangelsk explosion on them. I wrote that the repressive state waited for a response. That a cruel law enforcement policy is biting citizens. That blocked legal ways pushes the energy of protest in such a socially dangerous one.

If you are not afraid, publish a quote:

"A strong state. A strong president, a strong governor. The country in which the security forces belongs to the security forces. The generation to which the Arkhangelsk demolition belonged in this atmosphere. They know that they cannot go to rallies - they will disperse, then they will condemn. They know that single pickets are punished. They see that you can only in a certain set of parties It is painless to consist and only a certain spectrum of opinions can be expressed without fear.

The long -term restriction of political and civil freedoms created in Russia not just a non -free, but a repressive state. The state with which it is unsafe and scary to deal. "

I still think so. Moreover, in my opinion, the state only confirmed my theses with this criminal case. "To punish. To prove guilt and dry - this is their only task. There will be enough the slightest formal clue to drag a person into the millstones of legal proceedings."

This is a fist in the face in response to an oral remark

I did not justify terrorism. I analyzed the causes of the attack. I tried to understand why a young guy who would live and live, decided on a crime-self-cap. Perhaps I was mistaken in the reconstruction of his motives - and it’s good if I was mistaken! “But no one proved it.” The accusation instead of discussion is, you know, a rather primitive and gross position. This is a fist in the face in response to an oral remark. This is a fist in the face of every journalist of our country.

You can’t know in advance which words, in which order are placed, will hurt the next security forces. They called the crime the expressed opinion. They construct a criminal out of a person who simply did his job. By the same principle, you can invent a criminal case from any more or less acute text. It is enough to find "experts" who will sign the "expert opinion" necessary for the investigator. Knowing this, will you take a problem topic into the work? Do you pose questions that are surely eliminated? Do you decide to convict in the crime of the one who wears epaulets?

My criminal case is the murder of freedom of speech. Having my example before my eyes, dozens and hundreds of other journalists will not dare to tell the truth in time.

Svetlana Prokopyeva - Pskov journalist

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