6/5/2023 0 Comments Russian telegram![]() ![]() She was prosecuted for a post on an anonymous Telegram channel, on 17 March, related to an attack on a theatre in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol that came under Russian control after a long siege. Pomarenko will have “no right to engage in activities related to the administration of websites, public channels of electronic and information and telecommunication networks, including the Internet, for a period of five years,” said the press service of the court. ![]() She was also barred from activities as a journalist for five years. On Wednesday, the Leninsky District Court of Barnaul in Siberia found her guilty of spreading alleged “fake news” about Moscow’s army. The verdict is the latest in a series of high-profile rulings under new legislation that critics say is designed to criminalise criticism of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Maria Ponomarenko, 44, a correspondent of the RusNews channel on Youtube, was sentenced to six years in prison for comments critical of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, officials said, as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent. ![]() The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) denounce this fierce repression of freedom of expression in Russia and demand the immediate release of the journalist. Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for six years for posting on Telegram about a deadly attack by Russian warplanes on a theatre in Ukraine. ![]()
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