Perm schoolboy accused of extremism taken straight from classroom by FSB

Source: Meduza

Russia’s Federal Security Service – the FSB – initiated a criminal case against a sixteen-year-old schoolboy from Nytva in the Perm region for the public incitement of extremism. According to the Perm Regional Human Rights Center, the teenager caught the attention of local authorities for his posts on social networks.

In October, FSB operatives came to the school where the young man was studying and took him away for interrogation. According to publication Periscope, the teenager was taken from his village in the Urals to the FSB bureau in Perm.

According to Echo of Perm, FSB investigators visited the school twice and conducted interviews with students and teachers. The teenagers may face up to five years in prison.

According to human rights defenders, the teenager was targeted for a post on a social networking site that read “it is necessary to burn the church.” The young man is part of a pagan subculture.