July 12 () –
Vadim Prokhorov, Ilya Yashin’s lawyer, who is a municipal deputy for the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, has reported that a criminal investigation has been opened against this Russian opponent for spreading “deliberately false” information about the Russian Armed Forces.
At the moment, Yashin, one of the few politicians who has spoken out against the war in Ukraine, is under administrative arrest in a detention center, as reported by the Interfax news agency.
Another lawyer for the deputy, Mikhail Biryukov, has explained on his official Facebook profile that, as part of the criminal case, Yashin’s apartment has been searched, resulting in the seizure of an old Nokia brand phone.
According to the OVD-Info news portal, the reason for initiating the case was the broadcast of a live broadcast on the YouTube platform on April 7, in which the politician spoke about the massacres in Bucha, near kyiv. Yashin blamed Russian soldiers, citing a BBC video recorded in the city.
“It is important to show that no arrest will silence the anti-war voice. We will continue to tell the truth, despite all these rotten police,” explained the opponent, who has publicly opposed the war and has accused the Russian President Vladimir Putin to unleash it.
In late May, a Moscow court fined Yashin 90,000 rubles. The Russian opponent was arrested for 15 days on charges of disobedience to a police officer because, according to the agents, he showed resistance to his arrest.
The Russian opponent was arrested at night in a park in Moscow, the Russian capital. The first information indicated that he had been transferred to a Jamovniki Police Station, although later his legal team confirmed that he was in Luzhniki.
According to Radio Svoboda, more than 70 criminal cases have been initiated in Russia under the article on forgeries about the Army. The Russian authorities consider that the statements about the hostilities in Ukraine contradict the official position of the Ministry of Defense and are therefore false information.
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