The court placed in custody the ex-coordinator of the Ufa headquarters of Navalny

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa ordered the former coordinator of Navalny's local headquarters, Liliya Chanysheva, to be placed in custody as a preventive measure. She will remain in pre-trial detention until at least January 9, 2022. This was reported by the Kommersant Bashkortostan telegram channel.

The activist is a suspect in the case of organizing the activities of an extremist community (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). She was detained on November 9 - on this day, law enforcement officers in the Kemerovo region and Bashkortostan came with searches to supporters of Alexei Navalny as part of a joint criminal case against Navalny and his associates, which included five articles of the Criminal Code.

Security officials suggest that Chanysheva led a structural unit of the extremist community - the network of headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Before the trial, Chanysheva was placed in a temporary detention facility.

During the detention hearing, Chanysheva stated that she was apparently pregnant.

17:54 According to the Kommersant Bashkortostan telegram channel, Chanysheva will be kept in pre-trial detention center No. 6 in Moscow.

On November 13, Liliya Chanysheva’s lawyer, Vladimir Voronin , said on Twitter that the suspect is still in the temporary detention center (IVS) in Ufa and is not allowed to see her family due to coronavirus restrictions.

“I haven’t seen Lilya for five days. Visits, by order of the management of the detention center, are prohibited due to the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. I also can’t give her medicines and vitamins,” the Idel.Realii publication quotes Chanysheva’s husband.

• On June 9, 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens' Rights (FZPG) and the headquarters of Alexei Navalny as extremist organizations. An appeals court later upheld this decision.
• At the end of September 2021, the Investigative Committee announced that a case had been opened against Navalny and his associates, as well as other activists, regarding an extremist community (Parts 1 and 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Later it became known that several other cases filed earlier against the politician and several key figures in his structures were added to this case. Currently, within the framework of one case, in addition to the article on the extremist community, there are also articles on the financing of extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code), on the legalization of funds acquired by other persons through criminal means (clause “b” of Part 4 Article 174 of the Criminal Code), on the creation of a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 2 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code), and on the involvement of minors in dangerous activities (clauses “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Article 151.2). UK). The case under the article onfraud due to donations to FBK was not combined with others.