Masha Gessen

Affiliated media: The New Yorker , Journalist

Incident date: September 3, 2023

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Svoboda

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

A criminal case has been opened in Russia against Masha Gessen, the journalist living in New York, under the article on discrediting the army. They face a real sentence for talking about the events in Bucha in an interview with blogger Yury Dud. Gessen have collaborated with the world’s leading media outlets, and currently work as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. In 2012-2013, they were the director of the Radio Svoboda. The journalist was born in Moscow, and they have Russian citizenship in addition to American citizenship.