Maksim Rumyantsev

Affiliated media: Freepressa, Editor

Incident date: September 7, 2022

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 Media Ombudsman

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

A court in Yekaterinburg arrested Maksim Rumyantsev, the editor of the Freepressa website, for five days. He was found guilty under Article 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation of incitement of hatred. On the morning of September 7, Rumyantsev was detained by officers of the Centre for Combating Extremism and taken to court. Presumably, the arrest is related to the topic of the work of shuttle buses, which Rumyantsev covered. He took up this topic after a shuttle driver dropped off his daughter in the middle of the woods on a winter night. In one of his video posts, Rumyantsev insulted this driver.