In Abakan, Mikhail Afanasyev, editor-in-chief of the New Focus publication, was charged with «fakes» about the Russian army (point «a» of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). A photo of the decision to initiate a criminal case was published by Network Freedoms.
As noted by human rights activists, the investigators will petition to send the journalist to a pre-trial detention center. The reason for the “Network Freedoms” case is Afanasyev’s materials about the refusal of 11 OMON fighters of the National Guard from Khakassia to fight against Ukraine.
Yesterday it became known about a search in the editor-in-chief’s apartment. Afanasyev's equipment was confiscated and taken to the Investigative Committee.
«No one signed up to be meat.» The author of the Military Ombudsman public page talks about how people in Russia refuse to fight (there are already hundreds of such cases)