The Human Rights Council was outraged by the prosecutor’s office’s demand to imprison journalist Prokopyeva for six years

The Commission on Freedom of Information of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation called the case of the Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopieva absurd. The commission's statement is published on the HRC website.

In addition, the commission is outraged by the prosecutor's office's demand to sentence Prokopyev to six years in prison, the statement said.

We are waiting for the verdict, but we also express our sympathy in advance to other victims of the Pskov prosecutor's office, which today has shown its complete incompetence. We hope that the court will be more professional than the prosecution.

HRC under the President of the Russian Federation

• The prosecutor's office requested a deadline for Prokopieva on July 3, the verdict for the journalist should be announced on July 6.
• The case against the Pskov journalist was brought after her column on the website of the radio station "Echo of Moscow in Pskov" about the terrorist attack in the reception of the FSB in Arkhangelsk. The column was released in November 2018. In it, Prokopyeva, among other things, said that the state itself created the conditions for people to start fighting it.
• The article on justifying terrorism provides for a fine of up to one million rubles or imprisonment for up to seven years.