In Dagestan, a court imposed a fine for reporting the spread of coronavirus through helicopters

The Buynaksk city court found guilty a local resident, Davud Surkhaev, under the article on the dissemination of “deliberately false information” (Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code). about this . writes Interfax-South

“The court sentenced Davud Surkhaev, a resident of Dagestan, to 10,000 fines. He received such a punishment for false messages on WhatsApp about the spraying of coronavirus infection by helicopters over the city of Buynaksk, which caused people to fall ill and die, ”the source quoted the news agency as saying.

• In early July 2020, the Dagestan Investigative Committee announced the initiation of three criminal cases on fake news. According to the investigation, in April 2020, the suspects disseminated in the WhatsApp messenger “knowingly false information about circumstances that pose a threat to the life and safety of citizens, namely, information about the involvement in the death of people and the death of poultry in the city of Buynaksk and the Karabudakhkent district of state authorities as a result of spraying a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 from helicopters flying over populated areas.
• Across Russia, police officers massively draw up protocols, initiate criminal cases and demand that access to content about the coronavirus be restricted in connection with the operation of the law prohibiting the dissemination of “knowingly false information”.