Valery Klimenchenko - Justice for Journalists

Valery Klimenchenko

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: November 23, 2020

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: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Rostov Oblast, Rostov-on-Don

Additional information:

Southern District Military Court sentenced blogger Valery Klimenchenko to four years and one month in a general regime colony in the case of justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and insulting authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In 2018, Klimenchenko published a post on VKontakte social media about the explosion in the Arkhangelsk Federal Security Service department, as well as two posts about police officers.

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