Translated material
To the editor of the publication “Protocol. Samara" was charged in the case of "fake news" about the army
The editor of “Protocol.Samara” Sergei Podsytnik was charged in a criminal case regarding “fakes” about the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The publication's telegram channel is about this.
Previously reports that the journalist is wanted. He himself has been outside Russia for a year and a half.
Security forces announced the initiation of a criminal case against the father of a journalist due to the shelling of a vocational school building in Makeyevka, Donetsk region, in May. Then both of Podsytnik’s parents were summoned for questioning. In July they conducted a search.
investigations reported conducted - In September 2022, a court in Samara ordered to recover 435 thousand rubles from local activists, including Sergei Podsytnik, for police work during protests in support of Alexei Navalny in January 2021. And in June 2021, the journalist was fit for military service despite existing health contraindications. In November of the same year, the regional court upheld the decision on the legality of the publication's editor's conscription into the army, after which Podsytnik announced his departure from Russia. decided admitted reported - Since February 24, 2022 - the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine - residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 600 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our.
infographic - Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) in the Criminal Code in March 2022 - this is how the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison.