Journalist Alexander Nevzorov (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), sentenced in absentia to 8 years in prison for fake news about the army, has been charged with an administrative case under the article on inciting hatred or enmity.
According to the prosecutor’s office of St. Petersburg, the fact of posting on the channel of “one of the reporters on a popular video hosting” a recording containing signs of inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity “in relation to citizens of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, representatives of state authorities of the country, performing arts workers, ministers of religious cults, as well as members of Cossack societies and associations.
As a law enforcement source clarified to RIA Novosti, this is Alexander Nevzorov, whom the Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced on February 1 to 8 years in prison because of videos published under the guise of reliable false information about the destruction of the maternity hospital in Mariupol and the civilian population by Russian military personnel in Bucha, Kiev region of Ukraine.
The prosecutor’s office reported that a case had been opened on an administrative offense under Art. 20.3.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of human dignity). “A supervisory review showed that these materials contain signs of the transfer of various kinds of negative characteristics of individual representatives of these social groups to all groups; signs of the formation and reinforcement of a negative stereotype, a negative image of citizens and representatives of state authorities of the Russian Federation; signs of attributing hostile actions and dangerous intentions to representatives of state authorities of the Russian Federation, ”the press release says.
The department added that the case materials were sent for consideration to the Primorsky District Court. Nevzorov faces an administrative fine ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 rubles, or up to 100 hours of compulsory work, or administrative arrest for up to 15 days.
Source: Rosbalt
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