The Kamensk-Uralsk court has fined Sergei Glukhikh, a 20-year-old medical assistant, a sum of 3,000 rubles in the first administrative trial in Russia regarding the search for extremist materials (article 13.53 of the Administrative Code), reports Mediazona.
The minutes mention that, on September 24, Glukhikh was traveling by bus and searching on Google for information about the Ukrainian brigade “Azov”, which is recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia. Afterwards, he was detained by FSB employees.
The minutes indicate the exact time and place of the search, but it does not specify how this information reached the law enforcement agencies. The captain of the Ministry of the Interior who drew up the minutes stated in court that an FSB employee was on the same bus with Glukhih.
In turn, the representative of the special service informed that the information about the time and place of the crime was obtained by operational methods, which he refused to disclose.
Lawyer Sergei Barsukov stated that FSB employees, without introducing themselves, called Glukhih while he was on the bus and lured him to a meeting, proposing to discuss the possibility of performing alternative civil service. However, on the spot, they took him to interrogation and confiscated his phone, from which they downloaded all the data.
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