Russian comedians recorded a video message in support of Idrak Mirzalizade, arrested for an “extremist” joke

Comedian Mirzalizade was sentenced to administrative arrest on charges of inciting hatred. The reason was his performance in the March issue of the YouTube show “Acceleration”. The comedian told what tricks he used to convince realtors to rent the apartment to him. According to the protocol, the claims were prompted by his words that “the French are a great nation and can afford to be nationalists”, “and this is some Russian Pavel looking at me with a claim”, writes Mediazona.

In this context, Mirzalizade told how, when moving, he found a mattress stained with feces in his apartment. He noted that the previous tenants were Russian and jokingly suggested that Russians tend to stain mattresses with feces and go to bed. transfers Russian service of the BBC.

This fragment was shown on the YouTube channel of the Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov with the headline “Dirt underfoot.” “You see, he is a comedian, and he compares Russians to such a mattress. And this, excuse me, is not an article? And what has he forgotten in Russia at all? ” – commented Vladimir Soloviev. Later, a one-minute excerpt from Mirzalizade’s speech was circulated by the pro-Kremlin conservative TV channel Tsargrad and social media users.

The comedian said that after speaking only on Instagram, he received several thousand threatening messages, and on June 25 he was attacked by unknown persons in the center of Moscow, on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street.

On August 9, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow arrested the stand-up artist for ten days under Article 20.3.1 of the Administrative Code (incitement to hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). The lawyers representing Mirzalizade noted that the prosecutor’s office did not examine the original release of the show, but an excerpt from a speech on social networks.