Svetlana Prokopyeva

Affiliated media: Sever.Realii, Editor

Incident date: March 23, 2022

Attack type:

Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Location: Russia, Pskov Oblast, Pskov

Additional information:

Journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was forced to leave Russia. She announced on her Facebook page that she is in Latvia. On March 18, Prokopyeva’s apartment was searched in a libel case (Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) against the governor, initiated because of a post on an anonymous Telegram channel. In 2020, Prokopyeva was found guilty of «justifying terrorism» and fined.

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