The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced a 20-year-old member of the movement «Civil Alliance of Russia» Nikita Klyunya from Karelia to 14 years in prison. The movement reports this.
Klyunya must spend the first three years of imprisonment in prison, the remaining 11 years in a maximum security colony. Judging by the case file, the activist was accused of high treason< /span>, cooperation with foreign state, organizations terrorist activities and public calls for or justification of terrorism.
The hearing was held behind closed doors. Most of the case is classified, Klyunya's lawyer signed a non-disclosure agreement, the Civil Alliance of Russia reported.
Klyunya was sent to a pretrial detention center in March 2023. The hearing on choosing a preventive measure was also held behind closed doors. The court's press service then named only one article that the young man was charged with — organizing terrorist activity.
According to the student’s associates from the “Civil Alliance”, the investigation considered Klyunya to be involved in the arson of a relay cabinet near the railway tracks near Petrozavodsk, which the “Freedom of Russia” legion wrote about on February 3.
Activists said that Klune was accused of sabotage on the railway because “someone sent him a private message.” instructions for the manufacture of explosives.» The accusation was also based on the testimony of two witnesses who made a deal with the investigation and said that Klyunya was “the organizer of the acts he is accused of,” the alliance members reported.
Cluny’s lawyer refused to give a comment to Mediazona last April, but previously said that his client “preliminarily admitted guilt.”
The wardrobe is on fire. More than 65 people have already been detained in cases of sabotage on railways in Russia, every third is a minor.