The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended the detention period for COVID dissident Vadim Cheldiev. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the lawyer Andrey Sabinin.

The court left Vadim Cheldiev in jail until August 18. In connection with calls to attend a people's gathering on April 20 in Vladikavkaz, Cheldiev is charged under four criminal articles: on the public dissemination of knowingly false information about circumstances that pose a threat to the life and safety of citizens (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code), on the use of violence against a representative of authority ( h 1 article 318 of the Criminal Code ), on public calls to carry out extremist activities (Article 280 of the Criminal Code ) and on the organization of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code with the application of Part 3 of Article 33 of the Criminal Code). He was added to the list of extremists.

Vadim Cheldiev is a COVID-dissident, baritone opera singer and supporter of the ideas of Citizens of the USSR, who accused the authorities of North Ossetia of lying in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.
In addition to Cheldiev, cases of organizing hooliganism were also brought against the chat administrator of Cheldiev's supporters in the telegram Arsen Besolov and Cheldiev's supporter Ramis Chirkinov .
in the center of Vladikavkaz On April 20, a people's gathering took place against the self-isolation regime. About two thousand people took part in the action. The protesters were brutally dispersed by riot police, and as a result, 69 people were detained.

The Rostov court extended the detention period for COVID-dissident Vadim Cheldiev