Ilya Gantsevsky

Affiliated media: Online Activist

Incident date: April 21, 2022

Attack type:

• Prosecution for dissemination of false information and fakes (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Source

Location: Republic of Crimea, Kerch

Additional information:

On April 19, 2022, in Kerch, while serving an administrative sentence, online activist Ilya Gantsevsky was questioned in a criminal case under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public distribution of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) for publishing several materials condemning the war and actions of the Russian army in Ukraine. Earlier, Gantsevsky was detained by Federal Security Service officers for several publications in which he condemned the war in Ukraine, emphasized the problem of the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and called for signing a petition to impeach Russian President Vladimir Putin.