The court approved the house arrest of student Maria Platonova, accused in the case of the channel “What-to-Delat!”

The Moscow City Court left unchanged the decision to extend the house arrest of HSE student Maria Platonova, accused in the case of the telegram channel “What-to-Delat!” About this DOXA.

Previously, the court informed that Platonova’s house arrest was until August 14.

extended Platonova is accused of inciting mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the student, together with the author of “What-To-Date!” Dmitry Chebanov “created a network of telegram channels in which they posted publications and conducted campaigning activities aimed at organizing mass unrest” during the 2021 State Duma elections. The investigation believes that Platonova used the nickname “Vovan Zabivnoy” in her telegram channel.

The case file contains several messages from a user with this nickname. One of them, sent on the evening of September 5, reads: “Audacity is fire. We went out one by one with fires in order to make ourselves known at all, and we came out with fire, without a crowd behind us. They declared themselves to be a rather radical organization. The action went well, except for the arrests.”

listed Platonova denies participation in the actions that the Investigative Committee accuses her of. The student has been under house arrest since October 17. The day before, she was searched.

is detained - on September 16, 2021, the Investigative Committee announced the initiation of a case under the article on mass riots (Part 1.1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code) against the author of the telegram channel “What-to-Delat!” Dmitry Chebanov and “other persons”. In this channel, according to investigators, they posted recordings with calls to go to protests “against the Putin regime.” Security officials said that 11 people from seven Russian regions were involved in the criminal case. OVD-Info has information about persons involved in Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tatarstan, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Tomsk Region, and also, possibly, the Novosibirsk Region. Most of them are in custody.