The Central District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Kirov, will consider the case of “justification of terrorism” (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) against the anarchist Azat Miftakhov. Mediazona found information about this in the court file.
Broken window and “unconstitutional change of power.” Why are MSU graduate student and anarchist Azat Miftakhov being tried?
According to investigators, while in a colony on a previous case of hooliganism, the MSU graduate student from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics said out loud that he would “take revenge” for the death of a friend who fought on the side of Ukraine, and that “FSB guys need to be blown up.” According to his wife, the prisoner with whom the mathematician “communicated the most” gave evidence against him. During interrogation, Miftakhov did not admit guilt and refused to testify.
Shortly before his release, the anarchist was added to the “list of extremists and terrorists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. The day after leaving the colony, on September 5, 2023, Miftakhov was arrested again.
In January 2021, Azat Miftakhov was sentenced to six years in prison for hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). According to security officials, in 2018, anarchists broke the window of the United Russia office in the Khovrino district of Moscow, threw a smoke bomb inside and posted the video on the Internet. A secret witness, questioned a year after the case was opened, claimed that he identified Miftakhov by his “expressive eyebrows.” The anarchist himself denied that he participated in the action.
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