Moscow State University graduate student Azat Miftakhov's arrest in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office was extended

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow extended until February 7, 2020 the arrest of anarchist Azat Miftakhov, accused in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office in the Moscow district of Khovrino. this reports DOXA .

At the court hearing, lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina asked to transfer him to house arrest.

MSU graduate student Azat Miftakhov was detained in early February due to explosives discovered in Balashikha. After his arrest, human rights activists recorded marks from a screwdriver on his body.

Later, the young man was charged with hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to a broken window in the party office. A year after the incident, a secret witness identified the graduate student “by his expressive eyebrows.” “Mediazona” described in detail the chronicle of the persecution of Miftakhov.

There are four more defendants in this criminal case. According to the investigation, activist Elena Gorban broke a window, anarchist Alexei Kobaidze threw a smoke bomb into the office, Andrei Eykin filmed it, and Svyatoslav Rechkalov published the recording on the Internet.

Azat Miftakhov said that security forces came to him in the pre-trial detention center and threatened him with a second criminal case when he refused to communicate with them “informally.” Miftakhov's relatives in Nizhnekamsk also reported threats from police.