Former DOXA editor Natasha Tyshkevich was sentenced to 15 days of arrest

The Moscow City Court approved 15 days of arrest for the former editor of the student magazine DOXA Natasha Tyshkevich, the publication reports .

On April 2, the Tverskoy District Court found her guilty under the article on displaying symbols of banned organizations (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).

On April 1, Tyshkevich was detained at the exit from the Dorogomilovsky court, where the debate on the DOXA case was taking place. During the debate, the prosecutor asked to sentence all those accused in the case of involving minors in dangerous activities (Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code), including Tyshkevich, to two years of correctional labor. The court is scheduled to render a verdict in the case tomorrow, April 12.

An administrative case was opened against the journalist on March 22. On April 1, it became known that the report was drawn up because of a post published in 2017, in which police found an image with the symbols of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army banned in Russia. According to DOXA, this post depicts the official coat of arms of Ukraine.

• On the morning of April 14, 2021, four journalists from the student publication DOXA - Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natasha Tyshkevich - were searched. After that, they were taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee, and then to the court for a hearing to select a preventive measure: all four were given a ban on certain actions with strict restrictions. In fact, defendants can only leave the house for interrogations and two hours a day for walks. On March 31, the preventive measure was once againextended for three months. On April 1, the prosecutor requested a sentence of two years of correctional labor for Natasha and four of her former colleagues - Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova and Vladimir Metelkin.
• A criminal case for involving minors in dangerous activities (Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) was opened because of the DOXA video, in which the publication’s participants addressed students - they urged them not to be afraid of threats of expulsion for participating in rallies. Subsequently, the magazine's editors deleted this video at the request of Roskomnadzor. Under the same article, a case was opened against the former head of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters network, Leonid Volkov. According to investigators, after Volkov published the video “How can we get Navalny out of prison,” DOXA employees, against the backdrop of active discussions on social networks, had an intention “to support the above calls and create their own publications.” Initially, Volkov and the DOXA editors were involved in the same case, but later the editors’ case was separated into separate proceedings.