Case of Khamatshin in Chelyabinsk

Maksim Khamatshin's house is being searched as part of a criminal case against Yevgeny Bushev.

Investigator of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Chelyabinsk Region, Colonel of Justice Alexander Chepenko initiates a criminal case against Maxim Khamatshin. The believer is charged with organizing the activities of an extremist organization.

Maksim is interrogated as a suspect. The interrogation lasts 20 minutes. The investigator takes a recognizance not to leave the place and proper behavior from the believer.

The investigator of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region, Alexander Chepenko, makes a decision to bring Maxim Khamatshin as an accused.

On the same day, he is interrogated.

The case of Maksim Khamatshin is submitted to the Sovetsky District Court of the city of Chelyabinsk. It will be considered by judge Yulianna Vysokikh.

A preliminary hearing in the case is underway. Since the meeting is being held behind closed doors, a support group of 60 people is waiting outside.

The prosecutor announces the indictment. The lawyer and Maxim Khamatshin read out their attitude to the charges. Khamatshin states, among other things: "Within the framework of the criminal case, virtually any actions involving the joint confession of beliefs are unreasonably regarded as unacceptable, and the beliefs themselves, which imply the need for spiritual interaction, are considered extremist." In conclusion, he adds: "I do not fully admit my guilt in the crime imputed to me, I ask for an acquittal."

40 people come to the meeting to support the believer.

The court examines the materials of the case, volumes 1 to 4.