Ilya Azar

Affiliated media: Telegram channel Azar, Journalist

Incident date: May 6, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Journalist Ilya Azar was charged with «discrediting the army» (Part 2 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation). He faces a fine of up to RUB 100,000 under this article. «And I was beginning to worry that they had forgotten about me or that I wasn’t clear enough in my statements against the war!», — the journalist wrote in his Telegram channel. On June 10, the court fined Azar RUB 60,000.