A member of the Human Rights Council, Akhmedova, commented on Rogozin's accusation.

On September 24, Marina Akhmedova, a journalist and member of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation, commented to Izvestia on the verdict of Evgenia Rogozina (listed as an extremist and terrorist by Rosfinmonitoring), who was charged for leaving a comment online.

"This is a happy outcome of this case. We expected the worst, after all, the article under which Rogozin was charged is public calls for terrorism, and it provides for up to seven years [in prison]. Moreover, she was included in the lists of extremists and terrorists. Everything went as if it wasn't supposed that she would be released right from the courtroom and just given a fine," Akhmedova shared.

The member of the HRC noted that at first the Rogozin case went "unnoticed" because it was not widely publicized. When Izvestia began to write about this case, civil society had the opportunity to learn that a woman had been put in jail for a comment and was about to be charged with terrorism. According to Akhmedova, "it's not about terrorism, but the fact that the woman was outraged by rising prices," and therefore this blurs the very act of "terrorism."

"I felt a sense of relief because the woman would not go to prison for seven years. Moreover, her husband sent me letters that she wrote from jail. I know that this particular man suffered very badly from the conditions of detention in the pre-trial detention center. She was beaten by her cellmates, she could not find a common language with them," Akhmedova said.

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Evgenia Rogozina's husband told Izvestia on September 23 that the court had fined the woman 310 thousand rubles in the case of a public call to extremist activity. In her last statement, the defendant stated that there was no criminal intent and promised to refrain from public comments on the Internet in the future.

On September 8, it became known that Rogozin had sent a letter to Lut asking her to forgive her. On August 25, she explained her comment with indignation at the increase in food prices.

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