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Russian Blogger Detained in St. Petersburg on False Information Charge
Ilya Remeslo was detained July 17 in St. Petersburg and accused of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces. He could face up to 10 years in prison. The arrest coincided with a separate court hearing for opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin.
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Ilya Remeslo was detained in St. Petersburg on July 17 and accused of spreading false information about the Russian armed forces, state media reported. He could face up to 10 years in jail. ” The day after the post he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in St.
Petersburg and released after several weeks. He had previously testified against Alexei Navalny in court. Remeslo will be transferred to Moscow for a hearing to set pre-trial restrictions, his lawyer Sergey Badashmin told Tass.
On the same day a court in the Moscow region fined opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin 1,000 rubles ($12) after he was accused of displaying extremist symbols in a 2023 Telegram post that linked to a stream showing a photo of Navalny. Nadezhdin, 63, was declared a foreign agent the previous week and is barred from leaving Russia. He was set free after the hearing.
The foreign-agent designation prevents Nadezhdin from running in the September parliamentary elections.
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