Alipat Sultanbegova - Justice for Journalists

Alipat Sultanbegova

Affiliated media: SOTAvision, Correspondent

Incident date: May 19, 2023

Attack type:

  • Forced emigration as a result of legal / economic pressure

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: SOTAvision

Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Krasnodar

Additional information:

The Investigative Committee opened a case against Krasnodar activist and SOTAvision correspondent Alipat Sultanbegova for repeated defamation of the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The ruling on the initiation of the case was sent to her by mail, after which Sultanbegova left Russia on the advice of her lawyers. The case was initiated because of the anti-war action on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, during which Sultanbegova laid flowers at the monument to Taras Shevchenko and left signs with inscriptions «24.02.2022 — Day of Shame», «Forgive us Ukraine», and «Bucha, Irpin, Kyiv, Dnipro, Vinnitsa, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Izyum, Hostomel».

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