Judge of the Basmanny District Court Boris Safarin limited the time for Ufa activist Olga Komleva to familiarize herself with the materials of her criminal case about participation in the FBK (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.
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The fact that the court today considered the issue of the timing of familiarization with the materials of the criminal case means that the investigation into the case of Olga Komleva has already been completed and the case will soon be transferred to court.
The defense's complaint about limiting the time limit for considering the case materials was received by the court on July 19. Today in court, Komleva said that she was given time only until July 25 to study all the materials in the case. Judge Safarin extended the review period by only one day — until July 26.After this, the court — also behind closed doors — considered the petition of investigator Roman Vidyukov to extend the arrest of Olga Komleva until November 3. Judge Safarin granted this request.
The meeting was held behind closed doors at the request of investigator Telminov. As in the case of other meetings in the “FBK case”, the investigator argued the request to close the meeting by the fact that the remaining members of the “extremist community” could find out the details of the case.
Olga Komleva herself and her lawyer Mikhail Lavrentyev asked to hold the meeting in open mode.
On March 28, the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa sent local activist Olga Komleva to a pre-trial detention center in the FBK case. The day before, the police took her from her house under the pretext of forced interrogation in the FBK case. As a result, the Investigative Department charged the woman with participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code).
As the court’s press service wrote, the investigation believes that Komleva “voluntarily joined the extremist community.” This happened “under the influence of propaganda from the extremist community FBK (Navalny’s Team),” distributed on the Internet.
Olga Komleva was transported from Ufa to Moscow on April 25. On May 23, already in Moscow, the Basmanny court extended the activist’s preventive measure.
Olga Komleva, a cadastral engineer by profession, was a volunteer at the Ufa headquarters of Alexei Navalny for several years. During rallies in 2021 in support of the politician, Komleva was detained and fined several times. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard filed claims against her for 5.6 million rubles, demanding compensation for the work of security forces at the protests. The activist's bank accounts, house and car were seized.
Olga Komleva collaborated with the civic activism publication RusNews and covered protests in Bashkortostan for them, including protests in Baymak in January 2024.