Dmitry Ivanov

Affiliated media: Telegram channel “Protest MSU” , Administrator

Incident date: March 7, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Moscow's Timiryazev district court on March 6 sentenced Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to 8 1/2 years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces. He was charged with publishing more than ten posts from March 10 to April 10, 2022, about the Russian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the destruction of the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine by Russian troops, the shelling of the maternity hospital in Mariupol, the killing of civilians during the Russian occupation of Bucha and Irpin. Ivanov was also blamed for the use of the word "war".