Yevgeny Sergienko

Affiliated media: Moskovskiy Komsomolets, Journalist

Incident date: March 22, 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: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita

Additional information:

In Chita, Yevgeny Sergienko, the editor-in-chief of a local branch of the “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” newspaper, was charged with inciting hostility and degrading a group of people on the basis of their nationality. Searches were carried out at Sergienko's place of residence and work, during which computer equipment was seized.