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Russian Journalist Charged With 'Justifying Terrorism' After Critical Comments

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Russian Journalist Charged With 'Justifying Terrorism' After Critical Comments

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Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva.

2/8/19
A Russian reporter faces possible jail time over comments about a 2018 suicide bombing that was critical of the authorities, in a case that rights activists have called an attack on free speech. Security officers raided journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva’s home in the northwestern city of Pskov on Wednesday in connection with her on-air criticism of the state late last year. In her comments about the October 2018 bombing of a security forces building in Arkhangelsk that is believed to have been carried out by a 17-year-old, Prokopyeva alleged that the government had “itself” raised a generation that was ready to fight against it.

Prokopyeva, who also contributes to the U.S.-funded RFE/RL’s Russian Service, has been reportedly charged with inciting terrorism and faces up to seven years behind bars if convicted. “In the interrogation, I voiced disagreement with [the charges] against me, after which I cited Article 51 of the Constitution against self-incrimination ,” she told the Fontanka.ru news website Thursday. A Pskov court fined the Pskovskaya Lenta Novostey news outlet 200,000 rubles ($3,000) for transcribing and publishing Prokopyeva’s on-air comments in November, Russian media reported Thursday. The Ekho Moskvy radio station’s Pskov affiliate was also fined 150,000 rubles for broadcasting Propkopyeva’s show. U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said the case sends “a signal to journalists that [the authorities] will not tolerate any criticism of how the authorities respond to perceived terrorism or extremism.”

The Putin regime's assault against journalists and independent journalism continues unabated.

Related: Criminal case initiated against journalist who reported about act of terror in Arkhangelsk

Teenage Bomber Dies in Attack on FSB Office in Arkhangelsk — Investigators
 

Your argument would work better if American journalism did not suck as bad as it does.
 
Your argument would work better if American journalism did not suck as bad as it does.

What does American Journalism have to do with this Russian journalist? Oh yeah, nothing. Nice deflection, I guess it makes you very happy to see journalists like this jailed and killed since you decided to deflect with an idiotic comment like you just did instead of actually commenting on the topic.
 
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Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva faces 7 years in prison for reporting on a suicide-bombing at a FSB building in Arkhangelsk, Russia.
 
In Russia you have freedom of speech. But not freedom after speech.
 
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