Alexey Sidorov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: May 12, 2023

Attack type:

• Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk

Additional information:

The Tractorozavodsky District Court of Chelyabinsk has sent blogger Alexey Sidorov to a pre-trial detention centre on a case of calls to terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to the law enforcers’ version, he «swore and called on Ukraine to strike the Kremlin». The court said that Sidorov «publicly justified and propagandised» the attempted drone strike on Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Kremlin on May 3.