Ivan Lyubshin - Justice for Journalists

Ivan Lyubshin

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: May 13, 2020

Attack type:

  • Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison
  • Court trial
  • 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: Grani.ru

Location: Russia, Kaluga Oblast, Kaluga

Additional information:

The blogger’s sentences has been enacted by the Court of Military appeals in Vlasikha- 5 years and two months of the general regime penal colony. He was found guilty of public justification of terrorism on the internet. After his arrest in October 2019, Ivan was beaten up and tortured. In 2017, Lubshin was a defendant in two cases- inciting hatred or enmity and distribution of pornography.

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