A pensioner spoke about the interrogation and search because of donations from the mother of a Bashkir oppositionist

The home of Ufa resident Ilmira Bikbaeva was searched in connection with providing financial support to the mother of Bashkir oppositionist Airat Dilmukhametov, who is accused of calling for separatism and extremism. She talks about this on Echo of Moscow.

she said They came to her with a search early in the morning of April 21. According to the woman, a local police officer called the apartment and said that he was checking the neighbors’ complaint about noise. Bikbaeva’s husband opened the door, and several FSB officers entered.

“The search lasted until 9 am,” Echo reports the words of the pensioner. “They took my phone, a broken laptop, bank cards, checked all the books, opened all the closets, linens, photographs, wallets, gutted my personal bag, looked in the refrigerator, felt everything. In the bag they found a notebook with passwords for websites and government services, everything was confiscated, including flash drives with work documents.”

The security forces had the court's permission to search with them. After this, Bikbaeva was taken to the FSB for interrogation. It is not reported what specific criminal case we are talking about. The woman connected the search with the fact that during 2018–2019 she donated six thousand rubles to Dilmukhametov’s mother. “She was left without a livelihood, how could she not help,” the woman concluded on air.

According to Ekho Moskvy, several dozen people are going to be charged in the criminal case in which Bikbaeva became a defendant.

• Probably, a criminal case could have been opened against Bikbaeva for financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). A case under a similar article is already against Airat Dilmukhametov. The reason was a publication on VKontakte with a call to the “Bashkir political nation” to fight for “freedom, justice and equality” and the republic. The post contained details of Dilmukhametov’s mother’s card. initiated - Since March 2019, Dilmukhametov has been in pre-trial detention center in connection with a criminal case about calls for separatism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280.1 of the Criminal Code): video messages about his plans as president of the “Fourth Bashkir Republic”. It is also in calls for extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), again in statements and videos on the Internet. In total, five criminal cases have been filed against him. the Koran . In 2015, Dilmukhametov was sentenced to three years in a maximum security colony on charges of “public justification of terrorism” (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for an article - a treatise using verses of He was released in 2017. sentenced to religious-political