Ilya Krasilshchik - Justice for Journalists

Ilya Krasilshchik

Affiliated media: Meduza, Former publisher

Incident date: April 22, 2022

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Meduza

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Ilya Krasilshchik, former publisher of Meduza and former Director General of Yandex Lavka, became a defendant in a criminal case on «fakes» about the Russian Armed Forces (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason was his post in Instagram from April 3, dedicated to the killings in Bucha. «The feeling that here is this army of our country, it is capable of anything. And the country too», — read the caption to the photo of the deceased.

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