Olga Komleva - Justice for Journalists

Olga Komleva

Affiliated media: RusNews , Correspondent

Incident date: March 28, 2024

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: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa

Additional information:

The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa has sent RusNews correspondent Olga Komleva to pre-trial detention centre in the «ACF case». She is charged with participation in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Komleva was a volunteer at Alexey Navalny’s Ufa headquarters. For RusNews, she covered protest actions in Bashkortostan, including the protests in Baymak in January 2024.

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