Ruslan Akhmetshin

Affiliated media: Photographer

Incident date: May 10, 2022

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Arkhangelsk

Additional information:

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk has sent Ruslan Akhmetshin, a former photographer of the local Navalny Headquarters, to a pre-trial detention center. He is accused of rehabilitating Nazism over a publication in which he claimed that the celebration of May 9 was a «vulgar carnival».