The Khasavyurt City Court of Dagestan re-examined the criminal case against 54-year-old local resident Shakhban Abakargadzhiev about “fakes” about the army. As a result, instead of a three-year term of correctional labor, the accused was given a five-year sentence.

The reason for the criminal prosecution of Abakargadzhiev was his post on Instagram, in which he sharply condemned the crimes committed in the Ukrainian Bucha by the Russian military. In court, Abakargadzhiev admitted his guilt and explained that he copied this text from another resource and published it in a fit of anger after his deceased nephew was brought from Ukraine.

Previously, the human rights project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial recognized Shakhban Abakargadzhiev as a political prisoner.

“Abakargadzhiev is charged with a post with which he condemns the crimes of the military in Bucha. In this case, the accusation of disseminating “knowingly false” information is absurd, since the responsibility of the Russian Federation for mass murders and rapes has been proven and recognized by authoritative organizations. In addition, Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code is anti-legal in nature, created to carry out repression against critics of the authorities and must be abolished,” human rights activists said.