Olga Lee

Affiliated media: Narodny Zhurnalist, Chief Editor

Incident date: June 26, 2017

Attack type:

• Court trial

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: RFE/RL

Location: Russia, Kursk Oblast, Kursk

Additional information:

On Monday, the Leninsky District Court in Kursk fined journalist and ex-MP Olga Lee 90,000 roubles. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Narodny Zhurnalist” (The People’s Journalist) was found guilty of defamation against the judge Lyudmila Shurova. The libel case arose immediately after Olga Lee's widely acclaimed appeal to President Vladimir Putin, in which she accused the head of state of "conspiracy against his own people" and criticized the annexation of Crimea.