Chelyabinsk anarchists were sentenced to a year and nine months in prison because of a banner about the FSB

Chelyabinsk anarchists Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova were sentenced to a year and nine months in a general regime colony because of the banner “FSB is the main terrorist.” Human rights activist Pavel Chikov talks about this.

Spouses reports Safonov and Tsibukovsky were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by political enmity (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, on February 15, 2018, they hung a banner on the fence of the FSB office in the Chelyabinsk region with the inscription “FSB is the main terrorist.” Tsibukovsky, according to the prosecution, lit a fire and threw it over the fence of the institution.

The investigation believes that in this way the activists “boldly and cynically” violated public order in order to express their political will and opinion, and used the fire as a weapon.

The prosecution sentenced the anarchists to five years in a general regime colony.

requested The defendants were also charged with vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) due to drawings against pension reform on a transformer booth and a change house, but the statute of limitations for prosecution under this article had expired. This is a criminal case in the fall of 2018 after the police on October 6 accused five activists of drawing a man in a crown and a pensioner with the inscriptions “Our poverty is their profit” and “Pension reform.”

filed detained The case against Tsibukovsky and Safonova was filed in 2018, a few days after the banner protest. The young man said that he confessed under torture. Prosecution of spouses twice “due to lack of corpus delicti.” However, in April 2020, the persecution was resumed; riot police officers went to the anarchists’ home in their Tula apartment and detained them.

stopped breaking in. In September 2021, the court found the couple guilty under the article on hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and they were given real sentences: Tsibukovsky was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, Safonova - two years in prison. In November of the same year, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court sent this verdict and sent the case for a new trial. In addition, the anarchists were released from custody and were prohibited from certain actions as a preventive measure.

the sentence was canceled by Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova were detained when they tried to cross the Russian-Kazakh border in the Orenburg region, “Chelyabinsk.Online” with reference to the press service of the FSB Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region. They tried to leave Russia “shortly before the verdict was announced,” the agency said, without giving the date of their arrest. The convicts will be taken to the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center.

On September 20 he writes - The rally with the banner “FSB is the main terrorist” was held in support of the defendants, which was initiated in October 2017. The FSB accused 11 young people in Penza and St. Petersburg of organizing the terrorist community “Network” and planning to overthrow the government. Those arrested in the case stated that torture was used against them. In February 2020, the court in Penza sentenced the accused to 18 years in a maximum security colony. Assigned the affairs of "Network"