>>582 He wasn't exactly arrested yet, he was let go for now, but he's kind of being treated as a suspect for violating a certain "degenerate behaviour" law because of a relationship he started 7 years ago with a 16-year old (himself being about 26 at the time) and also for some shitposts from way back in 2007.
The AOC is 16 in Russia and the expiry period for opening a case like this is two years after the "crime", so there isn't really anything to arrest him on, it's just political harassment that popular politicans get. He could've been called to court for this before, but the government only started to care when he came from a big tour across the whole country where he did 30 lectures which thousands of people attended in different 30 cities within 30 days, this was as big as last year's liberal Alexey Navalny's tour in support of his presidential candidacy. The government didn't like this kind of popularity, so just like with Navalny before, they're trying to harass Svetov and the people close to him.
Of course, Svetov might have a shitty taste in women, but he really didn't break any law and everyone knows these charges are politically motivated, it's not just libertarians but also other factions like liberals and nationalists standing up in his defence right now because they know it could be any one of their heroes in his place. The non-systemic opposition, despite their differences, have each other's backs this way. If a nationalist gets too popular, they'll get accused of worshipping Hitler or doing drugs or something, if a liberal gets too popular, they'll be accused of owning mansions in America and being a foreign secret agent. It's very predictable. The government officials themselves do all these things and worse, but everyone else can potentially get arrested for some shitpost they did on social media 10 years ago. Putin's own press secretary Peskov for example started dating his wife when she was 14 years old, but he's doing alright, still has his job and all.
Anyway, the one to suffer the most from all this drama is "the victim" herself, Svetov's ex-girlfriend. She's still being interrogated and forced to confess about something when she really doesn't have any problems, she is on very good terms with Svetov and even does the editing and thumbnails for all his videos on his channel. The people who pretend to be defending her really don't care about what she has to say about the situation at all.