Anna Bilega - Justice for Journalists

Anna Bilega

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: October 6, 2023

Attack type:

  • Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Siberia.Realities

Location: Russia, Sakhalin Oblast, Lesogorskoye

Additional information:

The Uglegorsk City Court of Sakhalin sentenced Anna Bilega to two years of suspended imprisonment in the case of «discrediting» the army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A second criminal case against Bilega under the same article has been referred to the court. The cases were opened for a message in a WhatsApp group and a comment in the social network Odnoklassniki.

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