Ilya Azar

Affiliated media: Novaya Gazeta, Journalist

Incident date: March 3, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Interfax

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has found Novaya Gazeta journalist Ilya Azar guilty of repeated violation of the established procedure for organising a rally and sentenced him to administrative arrest for 15 days. Earlier, the court ruled on the first case against the Novaya Gazeta special correspondent over his social media posts about the March 12 pickets in Moscow against constitutional amendments. The court fined Azar RUB 150,000.