Russian dissident Yevgeny Roizman, the former mayor of Yekaterinburg in the Urals and one of the last opposition figures still at large, was arrested on Wednesday, August 24.discreditfrom the army, Russian news agencies report.
Yevgeny Roizman, 59 years old,was arrested early in the morningAt his home in Yekaterinburg, the official TASS news agency quoted a local law enforcement official as saying. “An investigation has been launched against him for discrediting the Russian army.“A crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, according to the same source.
Dozens of armed police officers in camouflage uniforms came to the enemy in the morning, according to the Mash channel video broadcast on Telegram. Evgeny Roizman’s lawyer, Vladislav Idamyapov, was seen by the police refusing to enter his client’s apartment, where a search was conducted, TASS agency confirmed. “It is a violation of the right to defense“, condemned Me Idamjapov, TASS quotes. Opening the window of her apartment, Yevgeny Roizman shouted to the journalists gathered near her house that she was really being chased.discreditof the army, ensuring that the investigation was opened in Moscow.
The mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018 Yevgeny Roizman may move to the capital of Russia. According to a police source, quoted by TASS, the investigation began because of a video condemning the Russian attack in Ukraine, which the enemy published on his YouTube channel. Yevgeny Roizman has recently been sentenced to three fines for condemning the attack in Ukraine. “I understand that I can be stopped“Eugene Roizman told AFP in late July. “I have no illusions, I am not afraid.»
The Russian opposition, crushed by previous waves of repression, has been decimated since the invasion of Ukraine. The last major critics of Vladimir Putin emigrated or were imprisoned. Recently, the two remaining opponents in Russia, Ilya Yachine and Vladimir Kara-Murza, were jailed for denouncing the conflict. They risk ten years in prison. Before that, opposition figure Alexei Navalny was imprisoned in January 2021.
Source: Le Figaro
