Mikhail Lebedev

Affiliated media: SOTAvision, Journalist

Incident date: December 28, 2023

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow has arrested SOTAvision correspondent Mikhail Lebedev for 20 days. On December 27, he filmed an individual picket of activist Oksana Osadchaya in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office in support of political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov. The picketer was detained together with the journalist. Lebedev was charged with repeated violation of the rules of participation in a public action (Part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation) and left in the police station for a night until the trial.