Denis Kamalyagin - Justice for Journalists

Denis Kamalyagin

Affiliated media: Pskovskaya Gubernia, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: September 26, 2023

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Pskov Oblast, Pskov

Additional information:

The Pskov City Court fined Denis Kamalyagin RUB 40,000 for the absence of a «foreign agent» label in his Telegram posts (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). The journalist had already been fined twice before on similar reports. The Ministry of Justice declared Kamalyagin a «foreign agent» in December 2020.

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