The Seversky City Court of the Tomsk Region sentenced local human rights activist Marina Novikova to a fine of one million rubles in the case of military «fakes». This is reported by «TV2» with reference to the husband of the defendant.
Novikova was found guilty of disseminating false information about the armed forces (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). During the debate, the prosecution demanded that she be sentenced to three years in prison. In the last word, the defendant also asked the judge to give her a real term, and not a fine, since she would not be able to take an installment plan for its payment.
The case against Novikova was opened on March 15, 2022 — she became one of the first defendants for this article. According to investigators, the lawyer “in one of the messengers under the guise of reliable messages published deliberately false information,” which she “allegedly received from eyewitnesses from the scene of the events” in Ukraine.
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We are talking about posts in the Pravda Goroda Seversk telegram channel. On February 22, 2022, it contained a link to a video by Russian blogger Andrey Karaulov with the title “If Putin attacks, we are finished!”. The channel also published anti-war poems, stories from Kiev residents about the war, and Novikova's video criticizing the authorities.
After the initiation of the case, the court chose a ban on certain actions for the human rights activist as a preventive measure. The pensioner was forbidden to leave Seversk and use the Internet. By phone, they were allowed to communicate only with existing clients to whom she provides legal services.