DOXA editors sentenced to two years of correctional labor

The court sentenced former editors of the student magazine DOXA Natalia Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova, Armen Aramyan and Vladimir Metelkin to two years of correctional labor. This was reported by lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represents Gutnikova’s interests from OVD-Info.

The convicts were also banned from administering websites for three years, human rights activist Pavel Chikov.

adds the court canceled the preventive measure. Those accused of involving minors through public speech in illegal activities that pose a danger to their lives (Part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code) spent almost a year under a ban on certain actions.

On April 1, the state prosecution sentenced each of the DOXA editors to two years of correctional labor with a ban on administering the sites.

asked - 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 prohibited from certain actions with strict restrictions. In fact, defendants can only leave the house for interrogations and two hours a day for walks. passed appointed - Journalists are accused of involving minors in actions dangerous to them (Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code). A criminal case was opened because of a 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 editors of the magazine made 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. deleted