A student from Ukraine is being held in a Russian pre-trial detention center for a photo of Dzhokhar Dudayev

A student from Ukraine, Ilya Gibeskul, has been held in a pre-trial detention center in Kaliningrad for over five months. He is accused of calling for terrorism for nine reposts on VKontakte, including the publication of a photo of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. The person involved claims that he did not make these reposts.

Kharkov University student, Ukrainian citizen Ilya Gibeskul was detained in the Kaliningrad region. The police took his phone. Later he learned that 9 reposts appeared on his VKontakte page: speeches by Dzhokhar Dudayev, a call for donations for the Ukrainian Azov battalion. Ilya denies his involvement in these reposts, claiming that his last publication on this social network was back in 2019.

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