In Yakutsk, a journalist was fined under an article on abuse of freedom of media

The Yakutsk city court fined journalist Mikhail Romanov 30,000 rubles under an article on abuse of freedom of the mass media (part 9 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Interfax.

Earlier it was reported that the district police officer drew up a protocol against Romanov under part 1 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of information containing hidden inserts that affect the subconscious of people).

An administrative case against Mikhail Romanov, a journalist from Yakutsk Vecherny, was opened in connection with his April text about the Yakut libertarian Anton Ammosov. Romanov's article described how Anton Ammosov, a former employee of the North-Eastern Federal University, was beaten by FSB officers, he was threatened with torture, searches were carried out because of comments about the Network case and the explosion in the FSB building . OVD-Info has already published Ammosov's story.

• about the interrogation at the police station on July 4 to OVD-Info , he noted that the case was opened on the recommendation of the FSB. spoke Mikhail Romanov himself
• Earlier, Ammosov said that in November 2018 he was unexpectedly taken to the FSB, where he was beaten, threatened that he would be tortured with electric current, and interrogated in connection with comments on the Ykt portal. Ru. In January 2019, Ammosov learned that he had been fired from his job. After publications about the persecution of Ammosov appeared, the FSB operative who had previously interrogated him hinted that there would be consequences.