Activist Maksym Voronovsky was prescribed compulsory treatment

The Chelyabinsk court decided to place Maksym Voronovsky, a resident of Magnitogorsk, in a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. He was accused of justifying terrorism.

The case was initiated because of a comment on social networks. According to the investigation, Voronovsky left a comment under a publication dedicated to the self-detonation of anarchist Mikhail Zhlobytskyi in the FSB building in 2018. Voronovsky allegedly wrote that he considered Zhlobytsky a hero. Voronovsky himself claimed that he did not leave the comment.

According to the article on the justification of terrorism, Voronovsky could face up to seven years in prison. However, the court considered that he “did not realize the factual nature and public danger of the committed act.”

According to Voronovsky’s relatives, he was previously an activist of the “Stopham” movement and studied at the Faculty of Law. They connect the criminal case with the pressure exerted on Voronovsky at the university because of StopHam’s actions.

• In 2018, 17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobytsky detonated a homemade bomb in the reception area of ​​the FSB office in Arkhangelsk. Three employees were injured, the young man himself died.
• According to OVD-Info, more than 40 criminal cases on “justification of terrorism” were initiated in the wake of Zhlobytskyi’s self-immolation. The courts imposed large fines on most of the defendants – from 300 to 500 thousand rubles, but some of the defendants also received actual terms of imprisonment.