Roman Ivanov - Justice for Journalists

Roman Ivanov

Affiliated media: RusNews, Chestnoye Korolyovskoye, Journalist

Incident date: March 6, 2024

Attack type:

  • Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Korolyov

Additional information:

The Korolyov City Court of the Moscow Region has sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in a general regime colony in the case of military «fakes» (Paragraph E of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for the criminal case were two posts about the Russian army’s crimes in Ukraine published in April 2022 and March 2023.

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