Anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov was detained at the exit from the colony and taken by car to Kirov. DOXA reports this.
The trial to select a preventive measure for him in the new criminal case will take place on September 5. It became known on August 25. The young man is suspected of public calls for terrorist activities (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of his comments while watching a TV show with other prisoners. According to linguistic examination, Miftakhov expressed approval of the action of Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who staged an explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB. The anarchist should be charged today, September 4th. On August 17, information appeared that Miftakhov was included in the list of “terrorists and extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring.
In January 2021, Miftakhov was sentenced to six years in prison, but in April 2022, the Court of Cassation reduced the sentence to five years and nine months. According to investigators, Miftakhov and three other defendants in the case broke a window in the United Russia office and threw a smoke bomb there. They were found guilty of hooliganism by prior conspiracy (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). The rest of the convicts received suspended sentences. He served his sentence in correctional colony No. 17 of the Kirov region. In July, the young man was recognized as a “malicious violator of the regime” and transferred to a detachment with strict conditions for serving his sentence.
Azat Miftakhov was detained on February 1, 2019 in the case of manufacturing explosives (Part 1 of Article 223.1 of the Criminal Code) during searches of left-wing activists. Miftakhov reported torture with a screwdriver at the police department. On February 4, the court was supposed to choose a preventive measure for the anarchist in the case, but the hearing was postponed for 72 hours - the investigation did not provide data proving the need for his arrest, the prosecutor argued. Then the case under this article was eventually dropped. On February 7, Miftakhov was released from the police department, but was immediately detained again - this time in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office.
12:53 A preventive measure for Azat Miftakhova will be chosen in the Pervomaisky District Court of Kirov, DOXA clarifies .
15:20 Azat Miftakhov was charged in the case of justifying terrorism. TASS reported this. The anarchist himself did not admit guilt.
The headline of the news has been changed due to the emergence of information about the filing of charges.
- On October 31, 2018, anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky detonated a bomb in the building of the FSB Directorate in Arkhangelsk. Three FSB officers were injured, and the young man himself died. Law enforcement officials classified the incident as a terrorist attack. After this, security forces across the country began to open cases of justifying terrorism against those who spoke out about what happened on social networks. OVD-Info is aware of 54 such criminal cases initiated after the explosion in Arkhangelsk.
- In February 2023, the FSB opened a criminal case against the Moscow cell of the Network, which investigators call a terrorist community, and conducted searches of Moscow anarchists. At the same time, the departmentbegan an investigation against Miftakhov.
- A criminal case against the “terrorist community Network” was opened in October 2017. According to the FSB, 11 young people in Penza and St. Petersburg organized the terrorist community “Network” and were planning to overthrow the government.