Znak.com - Justice for Journalists

Affiliated media: Znak.com, Editorial

Incident date: July 3, 2020

Attack type:

Prosecution for libel, insult, violation of privacy (1)

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Location: Russia, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Yekaterinburg

Additional information:

In a lawsuit against Alexey Navalny, Lyubov Sobol and Znak.com, Russia Today demanded that a publication regarding inflation of RT’s views on YouTube be removed. The television channel is demanding 500,000 rubles from each respondent. The plaintiff demanded that Znak.com remove two excerpts and a headline from its piece.

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