MOSCOW. Jan 15 (Interfax) - Pavel Zelensky, a cameraman with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, has been detained in Moscow and charged with making calls for extremism online over a tweet about the suicide of journalist Irina Slavina, Mansur Gilmanov, a lawyer for the Apology of Protest human rights project, told Interfax on Friday.
"Pavel Zelensky has been detained and taken to the Moscow office of the Investigative Committee. He has been charged with calling for extremism on the Internet (Russian Criminal Code Article 280, Part 2) supposedly because of a tweet about journalist Irina Slavina's suicide," Gilmanov said.
Operatives searched Zelensky's apartment and confiscated his laptop and telephone on Friday morning, he said.
Irina Murakhtayeva (Slavina), editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod-based publication KozaPress, committed suicide in front of the Nizhny Novgorod police department on October 2, 2020.