(25 Sep 2019) Moscow court ruled on Wednesday to keep a student blogger, accused of inciting extremism, under house arrest.
Egor Zhukov was charged on Sept. 3 with inciting extremism in videos published on his YouTube channel. He pleaded not guilty.
The 21-year-old student was detained on August 2 for participating in mass riots.
On Sept. 3 prosecution dropped those charges and instead accused him of inciting extremis, citing four of Zhukov's videos on his YouTube channel.
Zhukov's lawyer, Leonid Solovjev said the allegations are "made up" and authorities are putting "pressure" on him by preventing him from studying and socialising.
Zhukov is currently under house arrest until December 27.
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