The administration of IK-3 in the Smolensk region has placed Ilya Yashin on additional preventive registration. This was reported in the politician’s telegram channel.
“Previously, in my personal file only “malicious violator of the regime” was listed. Now I am also a person “prone to the study and spread of extremism” <…> I can only guess what this wording means. But as the guards explained, this status is associated with the “political character” of the person. my criminal article, as well as with extremist connections, in which I was previously “exposed by law enforcement agencies,” said Yashin.
Yashin is serving a sentence in the case of military “fakes” (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). In December 2022, he was sentenced to eight and a half years in a general regime colony because of a YouTube stream with a story about the murder of civilians by the Russian military in Bucha.
At the end of February, the judge of the Safonovsky District Court of the Smolensk Region, Vadim Solovyov, banned photographing, recording video and audio at a meeting on the administrative protocol on violation of the law on “foreign agents”, compiled against Yashin.
This happened after the politician read out his poems in the courtroom, in which, in particular, he called the war “the heavy cross of the entire people.” At the hearing, the judge warned about possible liability for disseminating this speech.
According to Yashin, recently a “man in uniform” came to him in the colony and handed him a warning that materials cannot be published on his social networks without «foreign agent» markings.