The verdict against the journalist will be announced on 1 February. The maximum penalty under Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – 10 years in prison.
“I beg you to recognize Nevzorov as guilty … and sentence him to nine years in a penal colony.”
– RIA Novosti correspondent quotes the prosecutor’s words from the courtroom.
It also asked the court to ban Nevzorov from managing websites and other resources for four years.
Nadezhda Fedoseyeva, the lawyer appointed to Nevzorov, demanded the acquittal of the journalist due to her lack of corpus delicti, and described the persecution of her as “violation of the legal rights of the reporter”. transmits BFM.ru. The lawyer noted that Nevzorov worked in accordance with the law on “Mass Media” and his case was “contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation”.
“A talented historian, a historian, who has been engaged in social activities for a long time. It does not participate in military activities and receives information from other sources. Not only the sloths talked about the events in Bucha and Mariupol. UN checks have been made, you can ignore the UN, but Russia is a member of the Security Council,” BFM.Ru quotes Fedoseyeva.
Alexander Nevzorov (known in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent) is a Russian journalist, TV presenter, film director and former State Duma deputy (from 1993 to 2007). After the start of SVO in March 2022, Nevzorov and his wife Lydia went to Israel. Later, it was reported that they moved to Italy, where, as the media noted, they had residence permits and real estate. The journalist is currently on tour in Canada, performances are planned in the USA.
Posts about maternity hospital
Nevzorov came to the attention of Russian law enforcement after he posted on his Instagram on March 16 (the owner of Meta is recognized and banned in Russia as an extremist) dedicated to the March 9 strike at a hospital in Mariupol. The Investigative Committee calls this “willful misinformation about the deliberate bombing of the maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol by the Russian Armed Forces.”
Nevzorov published the Associated Press news showing the evacuation of the wounded and dead from the hospital as a result of the explosion. Nevzorov accompanied the video with a comment:
Hospital in Mariupol. After the bombing. It no longer smells of The Hague, but of pure Nuremberg.”
On March 22, the ICR opened a criminal case.
Russia’s Investigative Committee believes the publication contains unreliable photographs of civilians affected by the shelling. It was also noted that the distribution sources of these images were the Ukrainian media. By that time Nevzorov was already outside of Russia.
Igor Konashenkov, Head of the Information and Mass Media Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, argued that the accusations of the Russian side about the bombardment, regarding the incident that took place in the Mariupol maternity hospital, were unfounded. The Ukrainian side was performed for the sake of an explosion staged near the hospital for Western audiences. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the maternity hospital was used as a stationing point for the Azov Regiment (the organization is banned in Russia).
On March 27, Roskomnadzor restricted access to Nevzorov’s website at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office. On April 22, the Ministry of Justice recognized him as a foreign media agent.
On May 4, Nevzorov was placed on the international wanted list. Already on May 6, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested the journalist in absentia.
“In connection with the inclusion of Nevzorov on the international wanted list, the measure of restraint in question was chosen for a period of two months from the moment he was detained on the territory of the Russian Federation or from the moment he was extradited to the territory of the Russian Federation; stated the court.
Landless but with passport
On June 10, the Basmanny Court in connection with the forgery case Nevzorov’s St. He confiscated his land in St. Petersburg. According to TASS, its cost is 7.87 million rubles.
On June 3, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, announced that Nevzorov and his wife Lydia had received Ukrainian citizenship “for outstanding service” to the country. Later, this information was confirmed by the journalist himself.
“I am very grateful to the exhausted, helpless, bloody people of Ukraine who allowed me to be among them,” Nevzorov wrote in Telegram.
However, on June 7, the National Security Council of Ukraine noted that Nevzorov’s path to a Ukrainian passport was through renunciation of his Russian citizenship, noting that Nevzorov did not acquire citizenship. They also noted that the journalist independently applied for citizenship to the Ukrainian authorities.
Source: Gazeta
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