The Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow arrested mixed martial arts fighter Ilyas Yakubov in the case of public justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts.
As the “Caution News” correspondent reports from the courtroom, Yakubov did not admit his guilt and said that he was “not a criminal, but an athlete.”
The man was detained the day before, October 22. The Investigative Committee's release states that the reason for the criminal case was a video that he published on his social networks in October. It is unknown what specific video we are talking about.
In the summer, Mash wrote that the security forces were going to check Yakubov because of a video on his Instagram, in which Shamil Basayev’s monologue with the words that the Chechens “can be defeated, but cannot be conquered” was superimposed on footage from the athlete’s training. . As the authors of the telegram channel reported, the head of the organization “Army of Fatherland Defenders” Ivan Otrakovsky then wrote a statement against the MMA fighter.