According to the publication, Alexey Malyarevsky’s persecution stemmed from a $150 donation to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), a solitary picket on Manezhnaya Square with a poster reading “Freedom to Navalny, freedom to political prisoners,” and distributing leaflets criticizing Moscow City Court judge Andrey Suvorov. This judge had previously sentenced Navalny to 19 years in prison on charges of “extremism.”
The accused stated that he received a template from certain individuals, printed leaflets on his printer, posted them on a building in Moscow, and took photographs.
According to Meduza, the programmer sent the donation to the FBK through the European online bank Revolut. How law enforcement learned about it is unknown.
The man was charged with “participation in an extremist community” and “financing extremism.”
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