The Lenin Courtroom of Nizhny Tagil arrested for 14 days the editor -in -chief of the Vedomosti publication from Yekaterinburg Vladislav Postnikov on expenses of “demonstration of extremist symbols” (half 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Mediazon studies.
The rationale for the executive persecution of the journalist was two posts in his telegram channel, during which the police discovered the symbolism of the Nationwide-Bolshevik social gathering, in addition to the headquarters of Alexei Navalny. Each of those political associations had been declared extremist by the Russian authorities and are prohibited in Russia.
Earlier on March 1, the Kirov court docket of Yekaterinburg arrested Postnikov for 14 days on the identical expenses because of one other publish in his telegram channel with the symbols of Navalny’s headquarters. The journalist was taken to the court docket for consideration of the second administrative case instantly after his launch on March 14 from the Nizhny Tagil particular month. “In all probability, the“ carousel ”arrest was organized,” Mediazone notes.
The Legal Code has an article for repeated “promotion or demonstration of symbols of extremist organizations” (282.4 Legal Code), in response to which an individual who has undergone punishment below Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses can threaten as much as 4 years of deprivation of freedom.
Journalists of the “Night Vedomosti” imagine that the case in opposition to their chief editor was “lowered” from the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Inside Affairs.
By the summer time of 2024, at the very least 54 protocols on the “discredit” of the military had been acquired by the “Night Vedomosti” because of information about anti-war shares. In whole, they had been fined a million rubles. Cash for paying reporters helped to gather readers.
In November 2023 the prosecutor’s workplace I took it The warning to the publication “Night Vedomosti”, discovering “extremist” statements and “inaccurate socially vital data” within the publications of journalists. The division threatened the publication by closing.
