Maria Menshikova - Justice for Journalists

Maria Menshikova

Affiliated media: DOXA, Journalist

Incident date: February 15, 2024

Attack type:

  • arrest in absentia

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Gagarinsky District Court of Moscow has arrested the employee of the DOXA magazine Maria Menshikova in absentia in a case of justification of terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case was opened in April 2023 in connection with a publication on DOXA’s VKontakte page, dated July 9, 2022, with an illustration depicting the burning of a military recruitment office.

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