Vladislav Sinitsa

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: December 29, 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: Telegram channel «Setevye Svobody»

Location: Russia, Kostroma Oblast, Kostroma

Additional information:

A new criminal case was opened against the blogger Vladislav Sinitsa, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for a tweet about the children of security forces. The case was opened under an article on public calls for extremism on the Internet. According to investigators, Sinitsa created a new Twitter account in the sanitary unit of the penal colony in the Kostroma region and posted on it publications negatively characterizing the military and Rosgvardia employees as well as containing calls to «violent actions against Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation as a whole». The Setevye Svobody project points out that the Twitter account whose publications are attributed to Sinitsa was registered in October 2022, and its first publication was a quote from a tweet for which Sinitsa is serving his current sentence. In the new case, Sinitsa faces up to five years in prison.