Hugo Gurdon

Affiliated media: Washington Examiner, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: May 18, 2018

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: RFE/RL

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case against the editor of the Washington Examiner Hugo Gurdon under Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code ("Public calls to carry out terrorist activities"). According to investigators, Gurdon had negotiated the approval and published Tom Rogan’s article on the Washington Examiner’s website, calling for blowing up the Crimean Bridge by carrying out bomb attacks,” said Svetlana Petrenko, the committee’s spokeswoman, in a press release.