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The court in Moscow arrested Alexander Nevzorov in absentia
The Basmanny court of Moscow in absentia arrested journalist Alexander Nevzorov in a criminal case on the spread of the so -called fakes about the Russian army. Previously, Nevzorov was put on the wanted list. He is abroad.
The criminal case against Nevzorov - former TV presenter, State Duma deputy and proxy Vladimir Putin - the Investigative Committee reported on March 22. This is one of the first criminal cases under the article on the "fakes" that appeared in the Criminal Code after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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0:00 0:00:51Nevzorov is persecuted for messages on social networks about shelling by the Russian military of the maternity hospital in Mariupol. The journalist called this shelling intentional. Conscious attacks of the military civilians can be regarded as a war crime.
The Russian army denies that it strikes civil objects. In cases where such attacks are fixed, Moscow claims that the facility was used by the Ukrainian military, or - as in the case of the hospital - that the shelling was led from Ukrainian positions or was generally a production.
- Kiev reported on Aviudar in the maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 9. The Russian authorities at first stated that the building was located in the headquarters of the unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, and then that they did not strike at all. According to the current practice, fakes the Russian investigation considers such messages that contradict the official position of the Ministry of Defense. In Russia, dozens of criminal cases of fakes have already been instituted, several people are in jail. Nevzorov, who was fame back in the late 1980s as the host of the 600 seconds program, one of the most famous accused in such cases.