Svetlana Prokopyeva - Justice for Journalists

Svetlana Prokopyeva

Affiliated media: Sever.Realii, Journalist

Incident date: June 30, 2020

Attack type:

  • Interrogation

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Sever.Realii

Location: Russia, Pskov Oblast, Pskov

Additional information:

On June 30, the next court hearing in the case of Svetlana Prokopyeva was held, where the defense completed their presentation of evidence, and the accused (Prokopyeva) was cross-examined. At the conclusion of the proceeding, Yuliya Safonova, an expert linguist with 30 years of experience, one of the authors of a reference book on linguistic expert opinion, and the author of more than 300 expert conclusions, did not find any justification of terrorism in Prokopyeva’s texts.

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