His case is connected with a post about the shelling of a maternity hospital in Mariupol. Nevzorov said that he was abroad. In the summer he received a Ukrainian passport.
The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced journalist Alexander Nevzorov (included in the register of foreign agents) in absentia to eight years in prison in the case of fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, RBC was told in court.
“Journalist Nevzorov Alexander Glebovich was found guilty of committing a crime under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code, and he was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of eight years, with serving a sentence in a penal colony of general regime, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to the administration of sites of electronic and information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, for a period of four years,” the court said.
The serving of the term of punishment will be counted from the moment of Nevzorov’s extradition to Russia, or from the moment of his detention in the country. The verdict has not yet entered into force.
The prosecution requested nine years in prison for Nevzorov and a ban on administering Internet resources for a period of four years.
A criminal case was opened against the journalist under an article about spreading fakes about the Russian military in the spring of last year. The reason was a post on social networks in which the journalist disseminated “deliberately false information about the deliberate shelling of the maternity hospital in the city of Mariupol by the Russian Armed Forces.”
At the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, Roskomnadzor restricted access to Nevzorov’s website, and later the journalist was included in the list of foreign media agents.
Nevzorov then told RBC that he was abroad. In early May, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put the journalist on a wanted list, and later the Basmanny Court arrested him in absentia.
In the summer, an adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, said that President Volodymyr Zelensky had given Nevzorov and his wife Lydia citizenship “for outstanding services” to the country. Later, the journalist himself confirmed the receipt of the Ukrainian passport. “I am damn grateful to those exhausted, desperate, bloody people of Ukraine who allowed me to take my place among them,” he wrote on his Telegram channel.