Karen Shainyan - Justice for Journalists

Karen Shainyan

Affiliated media: YouTube show Straight Talk With Gay People, Journalist

Incident date: August 14, 2023

Attack type:

  • Prosecution for extremism, links with terrorists, inciting hatred, high treason, calling for the overthrow of the constitutional order, rehabilitation of Nazism (2)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Telegram channel «Updating the list of terrorists and extremists»

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Journalist Karen Shainyan has been added to the Rosfinmonitoring’s list of «terrorists and extremists». This list adds those involved in criminal cases under «extremist» and «terrorist» articles — Shainyan is not marked with an asterisk as a «terrorist», so he probably has an «extremist» case against him.

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