The Moscow Tverskoy Court arrested Leonid Gozman, an opposition politician and former head of the Union of Right Forces, for 15 days. Interfax has reported this.
He was found guilty under article 13.48 of the Code of Administrative Offenses in Chechnya, which makes it illegal to compare Stalin and Hitler. He’s been charged because he published a post on social networks comparing the two leaders.
The Supreme Court of Russia has confirmed that a criminal case opened against Gozman and his wife for failing to file a notification of second citizenship was dismissed in 2018 on the grounds that they became citizens of Israel months later. They are now facing fines of up to 200,000 rubles or up to 400 hours of compulsory work.
Previously, the State Prosecutor’s Office requested 24 years in a strict regimen colony for the journalist Ivan Safronov, who faced accusations of treason.
