Aleksei Zakruzhny (Lekha Kochegar) - Justice for Journalists

Aleksei Zakruzhny (Lekha Kochegar)

Affiliated media: Video blogger

Incident date: July 30, 2020

Attack type:

  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel "Apology of protest"

Location: Russia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita

Additional information:

The court arrested the blogger for three days under the article on organising an unauthorised event (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). On July 25, he called on the residents of Chita to an event of solidarity with Khabarovsk – «feeding the pigeons». At the end of May, a criminal case was initiated against Zakruzhny for calls to mass riots.

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