The Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced the editors of the student magazine DOXA to 2 years of hard labor in the case of involving teenagers in rallies. This was reported by the head of the human rights group «Agora» Pavel Chikov.
The editors were released in the courtroom. They were also banned from administering websites on the Internet for three years. Such a punishment for them was requested by the prosecutor's office.
Four former editors and editors of the student magazine DOXA—Vladimir Metelkin, Natalya Tyshkevich, Armen Aramyan, and Alla Gutnikova—are accused of involving minors in rallies (points “a”, “c” of part 2 of Article 151.2 of the Criminal Code). The reason for the case was a video with an appeal to the authorities to stop intimidating students before the protests in January 2021. During the process, the prosecution interrogated several underage witnesses, but none of them watched the video.
Journalists were prohibited from certain actions during the investigation of the case — they could only leave their homes from 8 to 10 in the morning. The Federal Penitentiary Service tried several times to send the defendants to a pre-trial detention center — due to being late after the wedding and visiting the dentist earlier than allowed.
More than 120 teachers of the Higher School of Economics and more than 80 philosophers, including Etienne Balibar, Judith Butler, spoke in support of the journalists and Slavoj Zizek.
The authorities have declared war on everyone. The last word of Volodya Metelkin, the defendant in the DOXA case