Sofia Chebik, a participant in the Scarlet Swan chat, was released on May 3 from a special detention center in Moscow, where she was serving 15 days of administrative detention in a petty hooligan case. Reports Ross News.
In a conversation with a correspondent from Chibek certainThat during her arrest she was forced to participate in an “operational video” and read in front of the camera the text in which the FSB explained its message about a prevented terrorist attack against employees of Roskomnadzor.
On April 24, the special service announced that it had arrested seven people who were planning to blow up the car of an RKN leader. The leader of the criminal group was allegedly killed during arrest because he “offered armed resistance.”
Along with the press release, the FSB distributed a video presented as live footage of searches in the case of the failed bombing of an RKN employee. In the video, the unknown girl admitted that she led a conversation in which they published information about Roskomnadzor employees and called for “violent actions.” The Human Rights Project Section One suggested it could be Chebek.
According to Chebek, she was forced to record the video under pressure.
She told Ross News: “There were threats that a crime might happen. They read me news about terrorism, but I didn’t know what the topic was. I was in a conversation, and I didn’t even know that I was an administrator.” – They read to me that some Prokofiev R.R. He kept weapons in his possession. When I arrived at the FSB office in Lubyanka and asked what kind of terrorism it was, everyone shrugged their shoulders and said “we don’t know.”
What I said in the video was all memorized text that I was told to say in the video. I didn’t even know what I was talking about. They said this should help me. I was so nervous that I couldn’t say that I wouldn’t be without a lawyer…
The Scarlet Swan is a telegram chat and anonymous movement that, after a widespread internet blackout began in Russia, called on people to go out in protest. Representatives of the movement made official requests to organize demonstrations on March 29 in several cities, but they were rejected everywhere. After that, the Scarlet Swan called on its supporters not to participate in unauthorized marches.