Armen Aramyan

Affiliated media: DOXA, Former editor

Incident date: April 12, 2022

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the editors of the student magazine DOXA to two years of correctional labour in the case of involving minors in rallies (Paragraphs A and C of Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The editors were released in the courtroom. They were also banned from administering Internet websites for three years. Natalya Tyshkevich, Vladimir Metelkin, Armen Aramyan, and Alla Gutnikova were tried for a video about the right of students to participate in protests. All four were banned from certain actions during the investigation. The Federal Penitentiary Service tried several times to send them to pre-trial detention centers.