Alexey Fedorov - Justice for Journalists

Alexey Fedorov

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Pokos-Kuzbass, Video blogger

Incident date: February 4, 2021

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: ТV2

Location: Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Kemerovo

Additional information:

The Kemerovo District Court of the Kemerovo Region sentenced Fedorov to 12 days of arrest under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (incitement to hatred or hostility) for the video «Putin, go away». The blogger’s wife links his prosecution to the coverage of the situation around the expansion of the Chernigovets open-pit mine.

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