Ilya Yashin faces up to 10 years in prison in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army. The opposition was taken away for interrogation in the UK

The municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow Ilya Yashin after the completed search is taken for interrogation in the UK. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

“Yashin is charged with p.“ D ”of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code (the distribution of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) for the fact that on April 7 on its live on his YouTube channel spoke about what happened in Bucha, ”the lawyer said. The punishment under this article provides for up to 10 years in prison.

At the moment, the search is completed and Yashin is taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee.

Earlier it was reported that the RF IC opened a criminal case against Yashin. On June 28, the Khamovnican District Court of Moscow arrested Yashin for 15 days under the article on "police disobedience." Yashin himself stated that he was a report by a police sniper Alexei Mitrofankin, who claims that Yashin "grabbed him for his uniform, dirty insulted and pushed his hands away." On the evening of June 27, Yashin was detained in a park in Khamovniki, journalist Irina Babeloyan said .

On May 25, Ilya Yashin was fined 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting the Russian army” for publishing a 1969 photo from protests against the war in Vietnam. He published a photo in his channel in Telegram on April 7. ““ Bombing the world is like fucking for virginity. ” 50 years have passed, and the slogans are still relevant, ”the politician signed the photograph. The agenda in the court in this casecame to Yashin on May 11. In total, four protocols were drawn up for it under an article on the “discredit” of the army. On May 13, Yashingot acquainted with the case file in court.