A court in St. Petersburg extended the house arrest of an anarchist accused of justifying terrorism

The Oktyabrsky District Court extended the house arrest of anarchist, anti-fascist and LGBT activist Alexander Merkulov (Pezhich), accused of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This is the telegram channel of Merkulov’s support group.

reports Merkulov's preventive measure was extended until January 5, 2021. Earlier, on December 1, in the appeal, the St. Petersburg City Court changed the preventive measure for Merkulov to house arrest.

softened the Listeners, as the telegram channel “Objective Realities”, the bailiffs were not allowed into court, citing the judge’s order: only Merkulov himself and his lawyer were allowed into the hearing.

wrote According to the investigation, from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, Alexander Merkulov published posts on VKontakte under the pseudonym Aleksandr Pejic about 17-year-old anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who detonated a bomb in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. Experts found in the posts “signs of justification for the actions” of the anarchist.

After the court decision on December 1, which imposed a preventive measure on Merkulov, the anarchist, for about a day: the detention center employees allegedly waited until they received documents from the court.

cheated, was kept in a pre-trial detention center - Alexander Merkulov at the beginning of July 2020. The court on October 5th kept him in a pre-trial detention center until November 6th, and in November the preventive measure again: until December 6th. On October 28, it became known that Merkulova was transferred from the pre-trial detention center to a psychiatric hospital for an examination. sent into custody extended extended transferred - On the morning of October 31, 2018, in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk, 17-year-old local resident Mikhail Zhlobitsky bombed. Three employees were injured, the young man himself died. A few minutes before the explosion, a message about the attack appeared in the telegram open chat of “Rebel Rebel”. Law enforcement officers opened a criminal case for a terrorist attack. blew up - At least 21 criminal cases of “justification of terrorism” are known, initiated in the wake of the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate: Case; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case (name and surname unknown); case ; case . Evgenia Gavrilova Svetlana Prokopyeva Ivan LyubshinAlexey Shibanov Nadezhda Belova Vyacheslav Lukichev Lyudmila Stech Ekaterina Muranova Konstantin Vasilyanova Alexandra Kovalenko Galina Gorina Pavel Zlomnov Alexandra Dovydenkova Nadezhda Romasenko Alexandra Sokolov Alexandra MerkulovSergei Arbuzov Oleg Nemtsev Omsk resident Sergei Sizykh Valeria Klimenchenko