Sergey Kornilevsky - Justice for Journalists

Sergey Kornilevsky

Affiliated media: State TV and Radio Company Bira, Former correspondent

Incident date: February 27, 2024

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: Siberia.Realities

Location: Russia, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Birobidzhan

Additional information:

On February 16, a former journalist of the local State TV and Radio Company Sergey Kornilevsky was arrested. He was charged with justifying terrorism for his Facebook post about mobilisation. Kornilevsky is listed as a terrorist and extremist by Rosfinmonitoring.

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