Pavel Zelensky

Affiliated media: Youtube channel Navalny LIVE, Cameraman

Incident date: January 15, 2021

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

A Russian court accused Pavel Zelensky of inciting extremism on the Internet and ordered to keep him in the pretrial detention until February 28. Earlier, he had been searched. He is facing up to five years in a colony. Zelensky is persecuted for two tweets he published on October 2, reacting to the self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina in Nizhny Novgorod.