RusNews portal journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was arrested at the end of April in the case of " This was reported in the Telegram channel of RusNews..
Ponomarenko was detained on April 24 and sent to a pre-trial detention center - first for two months, later the preventive measure was extended until August 28. According to the online publication " Europe"
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According to the journalist's lawyer, she was sent for a stationary psychiatric examination.. Maria is expected to spend about a month in a medical facility.. Novosibirsk activist Yana Drobnokhod, who visited the girl, said that she was forbidden to write letters to relatives and meet with them. Meetings with a lawyer are allowed.
Amendments to Russian legislation adopted in March 2022 introduced liability for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. Innovations in the Code of Administrative Offenses threaten with fines from 30,000 to 1 million rubles, and changes to the Criminal Code allow imprisonment for up to 15 years. In the same month, the courts began to apply the new rules. Honest independent journalists and bloggers have become the number one target.
In particular, after the adoption of the law in Moscow, a public figure and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested, suspected of allegedly spreading fake news about the Russian army.. The arrest was made after he, in a speech to members of the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the United States spoke about the bombing of residential areas and social infrastructure in Ukraine by Russia.. In addition, a criminal case was opened against the well-known journalist Alexander Nevzorov, who also informed the Russians about the crimes of their compatriots in Mariupol..