Alexey Seryogin - Justice for Journalists

Alexey Seryogin

Affiliated media: Freelance journalist

Incident date: July 29, 2021

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Idel.Realities

Location: Russia, Mari El Republic, Yoshkar-Ola

Additional information:

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court fined Alexey Seryogin RUB 1,500 rubles under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (demonstration of extremist symbols) for publishing the banned in Russia symbols «A.U.E.» in a 2019 post. The publication in questions is an illustration to a news story about an attack by teenagers shouting «A.U.E.» to a Moscow deputy. The A.U.E. movement was declared extremist in 2020.

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