The Kurgan FSB filed a case against a Muscovite due to a comment in a telegram chat

A criminal case was opened against a resident of Moscow for public calls to extremism (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) because of a comment in a telegram chat. about this Znak writes with reference to the press service of the FSB.

The case was initiated by the FSB Directorate for the Kurgan region. According to the intelligence services, the 47-year-old man participated in the discussion of regional news and left a message in the Telegram channel chat.

With this comment, according to the FSB, he “tried to induce subscribers to the physical destruction of police officers,” the service reports.

No other information about the man and the criminal prosecution is known. Security officials report that he pleaded guilty.

• The security forces have previously opened criminal cases because of messages in the telegram. So, in 2018, a Kaliningrader was sentenced to two years in prison because of messages in a closed chat. A resident of Vladivostok was given a suspended sentence in the case of incitement to extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), which was initiated because of an entry in the telegram chat of supporters of Alexei Navalny. Before that, he spent a year in jail.