Aider Muzhdabaev - Justice for Journalists

Aider Muzhdabaev

Affiliated media: ATR, Deputy director

Incident date: May 22, 2020

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: Twitter account of Aider Muzhdabaev

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Investigative Committee opened case against Aider Muzhdabaev on charges for incitement to terrorism for his 2018 Facebook post about Oleg Sentsov’s case. On 26 June 2020 Aider was arrested in absentia and out on international wanted list for inciting acts of terrorism.

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