Nadezhda Kevorkova - Justice for Journalists

Nadezhda Kevorkova

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: May 7, 2024

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent 65-year-old journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova to pre-trial detention on the case of justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for the prosecution were her two posts in her Telegram channel, one of which was a republication of a text by Orkhan Dzhemal, a journalist killed in the Central African Republic. Kevorkova pleads not guilty.

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