Mikhail Alferov - Justice for Journalists

Mikhail Alferov

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Mikhail Alferov LIVE , Video blogger

Incident date: June 7, 2020

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Kemerovo Oblast, Kemerovo

Additional information:

Kirovsky District Court fined the blogger RUB 30,000 under the article on disrespect for the authorities on the Internet (Part 3 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). The reason was the video published in March, where the employees of the utility services are cleaning the snowdrifts with the words «Putin is a thief».

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