Russian opposition activist jailed after extradition from Belarus
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| Publication Date | 4 August 2017 |
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August 04, 2017 09:06 GMT
RFE/RL's Belarus Service
A Russian opposition activist who was extradited by Belarus has been sent to pretrial detention in a politically charged extremism case, his lawyer says.
Svetlana Sidorkina said on August 3 that Vladimir Yegorov had been jailed until September 18 while an investigation on suspicion of public calls for extremism is under way.
Sidorkina said Yegorov is being held in his native town of Toropets in western Russia's Tver region.
Yegorov, the leader of the liberal Yabloko party's branch in Toropets, was charged with public calls for extremism in October after he posted materials on the Internet in August 2016 criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He later fled to Ukraine and asked for political asylum there. After Ukrainian authorities refused to give him asylum, Yegorov moved to Belarus, hoping to get asylum there.
Belarusian human rights activists raised concerns about Yegorov's whereabouts on April 2, saying that he had been missing from his room in a Minsk hostel since July 29. His lawyer said later that he had been extradited.
With reporting by Mediazona
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