❗️ The court decided to release Khovansky from the pre -trial detention center

Kuibyshevsky District Court changed the measure of restraint by Blogger Yuri Khovansky, accused of justifying terrorism. This was reported from the audience of the meeting by the correspondent of "Paper" .

Khovansky was released from the pre -trial detention center until January 8, 2022. He was under arrest for almost six months - from June 10, 2021. At the request of the investigation, the blogger was assigned a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions, he is obliged to be in a timely manner by calls to law enforcement agencies.

Yuri Khovansky was banned:

• leave the house from 18 o’clock in the evening to 10 a.m. without the written permission of the investigator;
• use the Internet, send and receive mail, use telephone communications (except for ambulance, police or firefighters or communication with the investigation);
• communicate with witnesses and the media;
• Attend mass cultural, sporting events and "visit the crime scene and approach it by 300 meters."

The accusation also asked to ban Khovansky to communicate with everyone except the investigation. However, the court allowed the blogger to communicate with close relatives and with those with whom he lives.

According to investigators, Khovansky allegedly justified terrorism in a song performed on a stream about Nord-Ost. According to the article , which is charged with a blogger, he faces a fine of up to 1 million rubles or imprisonment from 5 to 7 years. Khovansky himself said : “I never sang this song before the victims. I sang this song by a group of Nazis and joyful Andrei Nifedov . ”

Update dated December 30, 09:55. The Kuibyshevsky District Court registered the investigation of the investigation to extend the preventive measure to Yuri Khovansky until February 8, 2022. This means that the preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions by a blogger can extend until this date. What will happen after is unknown.

Photo on the cover: Valentin Egorshin / TASS

Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation-“Public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism ... using the media or electronic or information and telecommunication networks”

What else to read:

• Before the investigation asked the court to change the measure of restraint of Khovansky, the media was actively written about the Blogger case (here is the portrait story of Khovansky from the “cold”, here is a special report from the “editorial office”, here is the assembly of letters of Yuri and an interview with his lawyer from “Paper” ).
• In addition, Baza reported that the “main witness of the accusation” in the Khovansky case - Andrei Nifedov - changed testimony several times; In response, he stated that he could not comment “without consequences for himself.” According to RBC, in Khovansky there are statements by three Petersburgers who gave very similar testimony. Two of them could previously work in the police.
• On December 27, Ruslan Usachev, Glory to the CPSU, Jesusavgn and 19 more bloggers recorded the appeal in support of Khovansky. Here is a text decryption .