Svetlana Sokova

Affiliated media: Video blogger

Incident date: July 9, 2022

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, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

The Moscow City Court approved the arrest in absentia of Svetlana Sokova, an opposition video blogger. She is prosecuted under articles on calls to terrorism and extremism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 and Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), incitement of hatred by the threat of violence (Paragraph A of Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and calling for mass riots (Part 3 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The case was opened because of the videos that, according to investigators, Sokova posted on her YouTube channel Voleizyavleniye as well as on the channel of the deceased video blogger Klava Belova (Anastasia Metelskaya). Sokova communicated with Metelskaya until the latter’s death in November 2021. According to law enforcement officers, Sokova made publications in which she called for a popular uprising against forced vaccination on January 15.