Moscow activist Mikhail Crieger received 7 years in colony for posts on Facebook

The court appointed seven years of imprisonment of the Moscow opposition activist Mikhail Krieger, Mediazon reports for posts on Facebook by a member of the Solidarity Movement of Movement of Movement of Terrorism and arousing hatred with the threat of violence.

On the eve of the prosecutor's office requested nine years for Krieger.

The first reason for the criminal prosecution of the activist was the post of 2020, in which Krieger called his heroes Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who arranged an explosion in the FSB Office building in Arkhangelsk, and Evgenia Manyurova, who opened the building of the department at the Lubyanka.

For these statements, to Krieger, detained in November 2022, threatened up to seven years. He was tightened by the charge because of another post, where he writes about hatred of Vladimir Putin and hopes to survive to his hanging. For this, the activist was charged with the excitement of hatred with the threat of violence.

• Mikhail Krieger is a Moscow opposition activist who has been involved in protest against Putin and political repression for more than 15 years. For his position, including anti -war, he was repeatedly subjected to administrative arrests and fines. Also, activists of the pro -Kremlin public movements attacked him several times.
• On October 31, 2018, a 17-year-old college student Mikhail Zhlobitsky entered the FSB building in Arkhangelsk and activated a home-made explosive device. The young man died.
• On December 19, 2019, a shootout occurred near the Federal Security Service in Moscow. Two FSB officers were killed, four more were injured. One civilian was also wounded. The attacker, 39-year-old resident of Podolsk, Yevgeny Manyurov, was killed.
• After the explosion in Arkhangelsk, a series of criminal cases on the justification of terrorism was opened in Russia because of reposts or comments on social networks about what happened. According to the ATS-INFO , about 50 such criminal cases were instituted in Russia. In particular, the journalist of the Sever. Reali Svetlana Prokopyeva was found guilty of justifying terrorism due to an article with reflections on the causes of the attack in Arkhangelsk.