"Wild paratrooper" sentenced to 2 years and 4 months in a maximum security prison
The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan sentenced opposition blogger and former serviceman from Dagestan Askhabali Alibekov, under the pseudonym "Wild Paratrooper", to 2 years and 4 months in a maximum security prison. He was found guilty of attacking a police officer.
Recall that on February 20, about 15 security officers detained Alibekov in Kazan. He said that he had come there to become an observer at the presidential elections. Police officers attacked him, threw him to the ground and began to beat him on the body and face. However, Alibekov was charged: according to the official version, he resisted arrest.
In March 2023, the former serviceman was sentenced to one year and two months in prison for "discrediting" the Russian army. The man advocated for peace after the start of the "SVO". According to the lawyer, the defendant wanted to save his son from death in the war with Ukraine. In 2018, he served in the Black Sea Fleet and called for a boycott of the Russian presidential elections.
The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" recognized Askhabali Alibekov as a political prisoner.
"The criminal prosecution of the citizen has two goals: to avoid proceedings in connection with the police abuse of their powers when detaining him at the station in Kazan and to force the blogger to stop his opposition activities," the human rights activists said in a statement.
