The “antifake news law introduced by Vladimir Putin a week after the invasion of Ukraine also hit journalist and former MP Alexander Nevzorov, who has now been arrested for spreading falsehoods about the attack by Russian forces on the “Mariupol Maternity Hospital “, accompanied by “inauthentic photos of civilians injured in the attack, from Ukrainian media”. Up to 15 years in prison, the defendants are accused of having spread “false news” about the activities of the armed forces in Moscow. According to reports from several independent media and the broadcaster, criminal proceedings have been initiated against the journalist Nexta. The announcement would have been made by Nevzorov himself on his Telegram channel, which has nearly 700,000 subscribers. On his social media profiles he has repeatedly spoken out against the Kremlin, declaring that he is “mad and documenting the operations of the Russian armed forces, such as those that took place in Kherson in the last few hours, where proUkrainian protesters were brutally attacked . According to his Wikipedia page, Nevzorov has been a reporter and political journalist for years and was an independent deputy member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation until 2007.
One of the posts that Nevzorov published on his Facebook page
The investigative committee had initiated similar criminal proceedings for six other people before Nevzorov. A few days ago, the lifestyle blogger Belonika (nickname Veronika Belotserkovskaya) was targeted by the Russian judiciary, who was accused of using her posts to spread “knowingly false information about the war in Ukraine. The reference is to some content in which the blogger condemned the actions of “bloodyjawed cannibals” and openly expressed her contempt for those who “speak of light and peace while we are all in hell.”
The post published by Belonika after the news of the investigation against him with the inscription “So? am i the first I’ve been officially called a decent human being!”
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