Larisa Tuptsokova reported that her relatives were being questioned and their home was searched.

Security officials searched the home of journalist Larisa Tuptsokova's parents in Adygea and questioned her relatives in connection with an extremism case. Tuptsokova received the indictment almost two weeks late.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot," journalist and Circassian activist Larisa Tuptsokova, who lives in Georgia, learned at the end of September that a criminal case had been opened against her in Russia for extremism. About a month earlier, a fake website for the Circassian Cultural Center in Tbilisi, recognized as extremist, appeared online. Publications were posted in the name of Larisa Tuptsokova.

Journalist Larisa Tuptsokova reported on the evening of October 22 that security forces in Adygea were conducting an investigative investigation into the extremism case brought against her.

“Interrogations of relatives, searches of my parents’ house (where, by the way, I haven’t lived for 13 years). I’m only learning fragmentarily over the phone that law enforcement is working tirelessly,” the journalist wrote on her Facebook page*.

She posted a photo of a letter sent by investigators to her address in Adygea. The document is titled “Notification of the day of indictment” and is dated October 9. In it, the investigator informs Tuptsokova that he plans to indict her on the morning of October 9 at the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation (ICR) building in Maykop.

“The letter, however, only arrived on October 21st. This means I had no theoretical way of knowing what exactly I was accused of. It's especially striking that the outgoing number of the letter and the date of my appearance are the same,” wrote Tuptsokova.

“If previously we were talking about fabricated criminal cases, now we're adding procedural violations to the mix,” notes a post by the Kabardino-Balkaria Human Rights Center on Telegram.