The activist from Novokuznetsk was placed in a psychiatric hospital for examination

An activist from Novokuznetsk, Ingvar (Ihor) Horlanov, against whom a criminal case of inciting hatred was initiated, was sent to an inpatient psychological and psychiatric examination. Lawyer Aleksey Pryanishnikov reported this in his Telegram channel.

“Once he gets there, it’s very difficult to get out of mental institutions: Ihor was already sent to a mental institution in Moscow in 2019 after his detention in the public reception of the president, then we managed to free him and cancel the court’s decision on involuntary hospitalization,” the lawyer noted.

A criminal case was initiated in early March for two publications criticizing the police and judges in Telegram, Horlanov told the Sibir.Realii project at the time. Because of the criminal case, the activist was included in the register of extremists and terrorists of Rosfinmonitoring. His bank accounts were blocked.

“The posts were in VKontakte, but I indicated the links to them in the Telegram channel. The screenshots of the employees of the Investigative Committee and the Center for Countering Extremism were from the Telegram channel,” the activist said.

• Igor Gorlanov is a pupil of the orphanage. For several years, he held protests in front of the administration building in Novokuznetsk, demanding social housing.
• The activist runs a Telegram channel called Toker’s Notes. In December 2022, he issued a series of messages criticizing Russian state structures and, in particular, the Novokuznetsk police. And in January, he wrote a post on “VKontakte” in which, among other things, he wrote that “the police in Russia arrest people not in order to protect someone.”
• On December 27, 2020, Gorlanov went to the presidential administration in Moscow with a single picket in support of political prisoners. The police detained him, after which the activist was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital. Later, Gorlanov was transferred to forced treatment in Kemerovo, then in Novokuznetsk. At the end of January 2020, he was released home.