During the debate in Moscow's Basmanny Court, a representative of the prosecutor's office demanded that journalist Alexander Nevzorov be sentenced in absentia to nine years in a general regime penal colony in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army . The prosecution is also asking the court to ban the journalist from publishing on the Internet for four years, TASS reports.

According to investigators, in March 2022, Nevzorov published “deliberately false information” on his social networks about the deliberate shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol by Russian troops and the murder of civilians in Bucha.

The journalist's sentence will be announced on February 1.

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After the criminal case against Alexander Nevzorov was opened in March 2022, the journalist's website was blocked in Russia, and on April 22, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Nevzorov in the register of media outlets - "foreign agents". In early May, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs put the journalist on the wanted list.
Alexander Nevzorov left Russia shortly after the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine. In June, it became known that the journalist had received Ukrainian citizenship.

The prosecution has requested nine years in prison for journalist Alexander Nevzorov in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army