Alexander Nevzorov
Affiliated media: YouTube channel Alexander Nevzorov, Journalist
Incident date: February 1, 2023
Attack type:
- arrest in absentia
Who attacked: Authorities
Source: Interfax
Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow
Additional information:
The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has sentenced in absentia journalist Alexander Nevzorov to eight years of general regime colony on the case of spreading military «fakes» (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was also banned from administering Internet resources for four years after his release. The prosecutor’s office asked to sentence Nevzorov to nine years in colony. According to the investigation, from March to May 2022, Nevzorov, being outside Russia, published texts and videos with «knowingly false information» about the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha and Mariupol in his social networks accounts.