Dmitry Kolezev

Affiliated media: YouTube channel of Dmitry Kolezev, It's My City, Journalist, Media manager

Incident date: August 6, 2024

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Net Freedoms Project

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced in absentia journalist Dmitry Kolezev to seven years and six months in prison in the case of «fakes» about the Russian army (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). He was also banned from administering pages on the Internet for three years. The case against Kolezev was opened in 2022, after the journalist left for exile.