Former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky was transferred to IK-2, Tula region

Former FBK operator Pavel Zelensky, convicted in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), is in quarantine in IK-2, Tula region. On May 5 he was transferred from pre-trial detention center-3. This was reported to OVD-Info by Yulia Ladunova, who corresponds with Zelensky.

“Now I am in quarantine at PKU IK-2, perhaps next week I will be transferred to the camp itself,” Zelensky said in his last letter.

On July 9, the wife of the former cameraman, Natalia Zelenskaya, published a post on Twitter with an excerpt from his first letter from the colony. In it, Zelensky shared that he was at the TPP (transit and forwarding point) in IK-2. Then he was not told how long he would stay in the colony: “How long I’ll be here and where I’ll go next—I don’t know yet, maybe a couple of days, maybe a couple of weeks, until no one told me that.”

You can send a letter to Zelensky at the following address:

*300 012, Tula, st. Maurice Thorez, 11a

FKU IK-2 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Tula Region*

Zelensky Pavel Andresovich born in 1981

• A criminal case was opened against a former FBK operator because of two tweets he wrote after the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina in October 2020. One post included the phrase “Let’s ******* [beat] this lack of power.” Another tweet said: “I hate you, Putin, Peskov, Volodin, and other scum, you are behind this. You can consider my words a call, but you are bitch bastards unworthy of life” (spelling preserved - OVD-Info ).
• On April 16, the Tushinsky District Court found Pavel Zelensky guilty under the article on calls for extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced him to two years in prison. On June 1, the appeal court reduced this period by a month.
• On January 15, 2021, Zelensky was detained after a search in his apartment and sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months, but on February 24, the former FBK operator was transferred to house arrest. During the investigation, Zelensky fully admitted his guilt, later stating that he did it consciously.