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The court upheld the house arrest of HSE student Maria Platonova
The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to extend the house arrest until August 14 for HSE student Maria Platonova, accused in the case of the telegram channel Chto-Delat!. about it . writes SOTA
The defense side asked to mitigate the preventive measure and allow Platonova to use the Internet for study.
Platonova is accused under the article on inciting mass disorder (part 1.1 of article 212 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, the student, along with the author of Chto-Delat! Dmitry Chebanov “created a network of telegram channels in which they posted publications and carried out campaigning activities aimed at organizing mass riots” during the 2021 State Duma elections. The investigation believes that Platonova used the nickname “Vovan Zabivnoy” in the telegram channel.
The case file lists several messages from a user with this nickname. One of them, sent on the evening of September 5, says: “Insolence is fire. We went out one by one with fireworks in order to generally declare ourselves, and we went out with fire, without a crowd behind us. They declared themselves as a fairly radical organization. The rally went well, apart from the detainees.”
Platonova denies participation in the actions imputed to her by the Investigative Committee. The student has been under house arrest since October 17, 2021.
- 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 Chto-Delat! telegram channel. Dmitry Chebanov and "other persons". In this channel, according to investigators, they posted recordings with calls to take part in actions “against the Putin regime.” The security forces said that 11 people from seven subjects of Russia were involved in the criminal case, later information appeared that there were 12 in total. OVD-Info has information about the defendants in Moscow, St. also Novosibirsk region. Most of them are in custody.