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| Terror suspect gets fine and probation |
| 2021-12-25 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a local resident, Ruslan Kovalev, to a large fine and compulsory supervision by a psychiatrist, having found him guilty of publicly acquitting terrorism. Ruslan Kovalev, a 30-year-old native of Rostov-on-Don, was accused of publicly justifying terrorism using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia) and public calls for extremist activities using the Internet (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of Russia). The maximum punishment under these articles provides for imprisonment for terms of up to seven and up to five years, respectively. "It has been established that the defendant, while in Rostov-on-Don, in August 2019 and March 2020 posted on the VKontakte social network text comments containing linguistic and psychological signs of public calls for terrorist activities," the Kavkazskiy node in the press service of the Southern District Military Court. According to the press service of the court, in April 2019 and in 2020, Kovalev also published text comments from his personal page on the VKontakte social network with calls for “the implementation of violent, hostile actions against a social group on the basis of belonging of citizens of the Russian Federation living in a certain territory." "The defendant was found guilty and he was sentenced to a fine of 350,000 rubles with the deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to the administration of sites using electronic or information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, for a period of two years." reported in the press service. In addition to the main punishment, Kovalev was also assigned compulsory medical measures in the form of compulsory observation and treatment by a psychiatrist on an outpatient basis. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal. The criminal case against Kovalev was filed with the court on November 8, the process took three sessions, follows from the file on the website of the Southern District Military Court. |
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