A Nizhny Novgorod resident with a disability was sent under house arrest in the case of “fake news”

The Moskovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod placed Alexey Volsky, who was being prosecuted under the article on military “fakes” (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), under house arrest until September 5th. This was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Kristina Tyurina.

Volsky has had a second group disability since childhood, but the investigator asked to take him into custody. He was detained on June 13, when a riot police unit came to him. The reason for the persecution was a publication on VKontakte. “Lots of dead locals and nothing but destruction. In general, the Russian occupiers and the Russian government itself as a whole are to blame here. They are doing inhumane things,” he wrote on his page, after which a criminal case was opened against him for “fakes.”

The information about the number of posts that Volsky is accused of has been corrected in the news. - Since February 24, 2022—the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 600 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. infographic - Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) in the Criminal Code in March 2022 - this is how the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison. turned on