THE Russia today filed the first criminal case against one journalist for the publication of “false information” concerning actions of the Russian armywhich is punishable under the new law with up to 15 years in prison.
The Inquiry Committee states in its announcement that “prosecuted journalist Alexander Nevzorov” who “knowingly published false information about the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol (southeast of Ukraine) by the Russian army».
And a new law against – according to Moscow – fake news
Earlier today, Russian lawmakers approved a bill that provides for criminal prosecution for “false information” referring to all Russian government agencies operating abroad, adopting a new crackdown on Russian intelligence attack on Ukraineas the French Agency writes.
This law, which was adopted in third reading, is complementary of the law passed in early March and provides for up to 15 years in prison for publishing “false information” concerning the Russian military.
According to the announcement of the Russian parliament, the text of the law punishes “the dissemination of false information knowingly and publicly under the guise of “reliable information” about the “activities of Russian state bodies outside Russian territory».
The law provides for a sentence of three years in prison, but if the violation was motivated selfish, politics, ideologically, racist or with national incentives the religious hatred and hatred, is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, if the dissemination of “false information” results in serious results the sentence can reach 10-15 years in prison.
Russia has banned several local and foreign media outlets, including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, since the attack on Ukraine on February 24. yesterday called Meta platforms “extremist”rebroadcasts the APE BPE.
So far they have suffered the consequences of this law at least three persons for posts made on the Internet against the conflict in Ukraine.
Source: News Beast
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