In the Basmanny Court of Moscow, there is a trial in the criminal case of Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov, accused of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army.
At today’s meeting, the prosecutor’s representative demanded to put the journalist to 9 years in prison and forbid him to publish on the Internet for 4 years.
The same amounted to the accusation for the former Moscow municipal deputy Ilya Yashin, who was sent to the colony for 8.5 years.
Unlike Yashin, Nevzorov has little chance of leaving for places of imprisonment. The journalist, who touched in Israel at the moment when he had a criminal case, did not return to Russia. Now he is abroad and does not reveal his location. In June, it became known that he received Ukrainian citizenship.
The Russian authorities accuse Nevzorov of the publications of allegedly “obviously false information” on intentional shelling by the Russian military maternity hospital in Mariupol and the murder of civilians in Buch. On April 22, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Nevzorov in the register of “foreign agents”. In early May, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced the journalist on the wanted list.
Nevzorov has not yet commented on the demand of the prosecutor’s office to “close” it for 9 years. The verdict will be announced tomorrow, February 1.