Russian citizen sent to psychiatric hospital for demanding separation of Siberia from Russia
Angarsk City Court has referred a local resident who called for the separation of Siberia from Russia to involuntary treatment, said the Prosecutor's Office of the Irkutsk region.
The Court found that citizen A. appealed on the Internet in January 2016 for the creation of a separate republic stretching from the Urals to the Pacific. Criminal proceedings were instituted against him under Part 2 of Art. 280.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Public calls for action aimed at violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation).
The Court found that the man was insane when he called for the separation of Siberia. He was released from criminal liability with the use of compulsory medical measures.
The Prosecutor's Office notes that the Court's decision has not yet entered into force.
Earlier, in a similar case, the organizer of the March for the Federalization of Siberia was detained in Russia in August 2014.