Anna Bazhutova - Justice for Journalists

Anna Bazhutova

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: August 18, 2023

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for dissemination of false information and fakes (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow has arrested Twitch streamer YokoBovich (Anna Bazhutova) for two months in a case of military «fakes» (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for the prosecution of the blogger was the June stream, where, according to the official version, she read out the stories of Bucha residents, wrote on a cardboard that 300 people in Bucha were killed by Russian soldiers, uttered the phrase «death to Russian occupants», and, in addition, called for «overkill» of the guilty «Russian people». Bazhutova’s apartment was searched and her equipment was seized.

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