Alexey Seregin - Justice for Journalists

Alexey Seregin

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: August 2, 2025

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: 7x7 Horizontal Russia

Location: Russia, Mari El Republic, Mari El

Additional information:

Journalist Alexei Seregin has been summoned to the police for the drafting of a report on charges of inciting hatred. According to an officer from the Center for Combating Extremism, who delivered the summons to Seregin’s mother, four administrative cases have been opened against him. These include charges of “inciting hatred or enmity and humiliating human dignity” (Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) and “abuse of freedom of the mass media” (Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

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