Yesterday, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court ruled to release anarchist Dmitry Tsibukovsky, who was convicted because of an action with a banner «FSB is the main terrorist» in 2018, from the pre-trial detention center. Today he was released, Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora human rights group, said.
In September 2022, Tsibukovsky and his wife Anastasia Safonova were sentenced to one year and nine months because of the stretch marks on the fence of the FSB department in the Chelyabinsk region general regime colonies. Now the regional court is considering an appeal against this decision.
The anarchist was released due to the fact that, taking into account the time spent under arrest, his term, appointed by the court's verdict, ended today. In December 2022, also in connection with the actual serving of the sentence, Safonova was released, who was awaiting an appeal in the pre-trial detention center. -publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Half-bent. Detainees in the case of the banner «FSB is the main terrorist» in Chelyabinsk spoke about torture in the FSB Networks” (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). They were also accused of vandalism because of the drawings against the pension reform on the transformer box and change house (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code), however, the statute of limitations for criminal liability for this article has expired.
In 2018, Tsibukovsky, Safronov and several other people were detained because of the banner, but were soon released. They were detained again two years later, as a result, the case went to court. In September 2021, the activists were sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but the prosecutor's office demanded that the sentence be increased to six years. Two months later, the sentence was annulled, the activists were released from the pre-trial detention center under the ban on certain actions, and the case was sent for a new trial to the court of first instance.