The wife of anarchist Azat Miftakhov said that she was not allowed to see her husband in a pre-trial detention center because of a denunciation from a friend

Anarchist Azat Miftakhov, who is in Kirov pre-trial detention center-1, is not allowed to see his wife Elena Gorban. about this She spoke in her Telegram channel.

As Gorban writes, the reason for this was a letter that she sent to Yevgeny Trushkov, a prisoner and acquaintance of Miftakhov. Trushkov gave testimony, on the basis of which a new criminal case was opened against the anarchist for justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code).

"Housewarming. I really hope that they also put you in a cell here with rats and cockroaches?” — wrote to an acquaintance of her husband. Gorban

According to Miftakhov’s wife, “the former friend became friendly again and wrote a statement to the investigator” with a request to include her letter in the case. In addition, as Gorban reported, the investigator did not allow her to communicate with her husband by phone.

“Perhaps something will change closer to February, when Azat becomes a defendant, and permission will have to be asked from the judge. In the meantime, we can only correspond and see each other only through the VKS at the courts to suppress or appeal the actions of the IC, to which I constantly go,” Gorban writes in his telegram channel.

In January 2021, Miftakhov was sentenced to six years in prison for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to security officials, in 2018, anarchists broke the window of the United Russia office in the Khovrino district of Moscow, threw a smoke bomb inside and posted the video on the Internet. A secret witness, questioned a year after the initiation of the case, claimed that he identified Miftakhov by his “expressive eyebrows.” The anarchist himself denied that he participated in the action.

Two weeks before his release, the anarchist was added to the “list of extremists and terrorists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. The day after leaving the colony, on September 5, 2023, Miftakhov was sent to a pre-trial detention center on a new case of “justification of terrorism.” According to investigators, in the spring, while watching news about the war, Miftakhov said out loud that he would “take revenge” for the death of a friend who fought on the side of Ukraine, and that “the FSB officers should be blown up.”