Alexey Trunov - Justice for Journalists

Alexey Trunov

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: August 17, 2023

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: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

Additional information:

On August 17, activist and blogger Alexey Trunov was detained in Petrozavodsk. He was drawn up a report on displaying prohibited symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) for a link to a video with symbols of Navalny’s headquarters published on Trunov’s page in VKontakte and left for a night until the trial. The next day, the court fined Trunov RUB 1,000.

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