Iskander Siraziev - Justice for Journalists

Iskander Siraziev

Affiliated media: Newspaper Sirazhi Suze, Journalist

Incident date: March 20, 2020

Attack type:

  • community service, ban on certain activities and other punishment following a criminal case
  • Court trial
  • Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan

Additional information:

The court in Tatarstan, on demand of the case officer of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Dmitry Marfin asked to remove several video interview in which Marfin was accused of torture. The defendants - two human rights activists, the editor-in-chief of the TatPolit website Ruslan Aisin and the journalist of Sirazhi Suze, Iskander Siraziev - were charged 10 thousand rubles (111 GBP) each.

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