A Moscow court arrested the administrator of “Protest MSU” Dmitry Ivanov in the case of “fake news” about the army

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow arrested Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the telegram channel “Protest MGU”, for two months in the case of “fake news” about the army. This is reported by Sota .

The oppositionist was sent to a pre-trial detention center until August 2.

Ivanov is accused of spreading “deliberately false” information about the army by a group of people motivated by political or ideological hatred.

The case became known the day before. On the morning of June 2, Ivanov’s mother and stepfather were searched, and they themselves were interrogated as witnesses.

What prompted the case is unknown. source An unnamed Sota claims that investigators considered “Protest MSU” posts about Russian attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, an unnamed city in Ukraine, losses of Russian aviation in Ukraine, war crimes in Bucha and Irpen, as well as a post where “special operation” is called war.