OVD-Info - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: OVD-Info, Human rights project

Incident date: December 20, 2021

Attack type:

Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Roskomnadzor has blocked the website of the largest independent human rights media project dedicated to political persecution in Russia following a decision of the Lukhovitsky District Court of the Moscow Region. The website was added to the register of the banned websites on the grounds that its work is allegedly «aimed at justifying the activities of extremist and terrorist associations». Roskomnadzor demanded that social networks block the accounts of OVD-Info.

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