“Things are now decentralized.” First Department lawyer Evgeniy Smirnov told how the approach of the security forces in initiating cases of “high treason” has changed
In the Russian regions, "conveyors" for the production of criminal cases on "treason" have been launched. Yevgeny Smirnov, a lawyer for the First Department human rights project, spoke about this live on the Dozhd TV channel. In recent months, new criminal cases under this article have been reported regularly, sometimes even more than once a day. According to him, before 95% of cases under this article were transferred to Moscow, regardless of where the person was detained.