Dmitry Sviridov

Affiliated media: Telegram channel "Demon Channel", 24ТМ.ru, Website owner, Telegram channel administrator

Incident date: December 31, 2020

Attack type:

• Suspended sentence

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Korolev

Additional information:

Korolev City Court of Moscow Region found Dmitry Sviridov, the administrator of the Telegram channel «Demon Channel» and owner of the 24TM.ru website, guilty in the extortion case. He was sentenced to seven years of jail conditionally. Earlier, he had been given a measure of restraint in the form of house arrest.