Pavel Zelensky - Justice for Journalists

Pavel Zelensky

Affiliated media: YouTube channel Navalny Live, Cameraman

Incident date: April 16, 2021

Attack type:

  • community service, ban on certain activities and other punishment following a criminal case

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Novaya Gazeta

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Tushino District Court of Moscow has sentenced the videographer of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Pavel Zelensky, who became a defendant in the case of calls to extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federatio) because of his tweet about self-immolation of journalist Irina Slavina, to two years in a general regime colony. He was taken into custody in the courtroom. In addition, judge Maria Dzis forbade Zelensky to engage in activities related to the administration of websites on the Internet for two years.

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