Prosecutors had asked the judge to jail Prokopyeva for six years, ban her from working in journalism for four years. FMTNews
July 6, 2020 8:29 PMPSKOV: A Russian journalist was found guilty on Monday and handed a hefty fine for “justifying terrorism” in a case that sparked an outcry among her allies at home and rights groups abroad.
The judge found Prokopyeva guilty, an AFP journalist in the Pskov courtroom reported, and ordered her to pay a fine of 500,000 rubles . Prokopyeva left the court building carrying a large bouquet of flowers, thanking her allies for their support and vowing to appeal the decision. In her opinion piece, published by the Pskov affiliate of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Prokopyeva linked the teenager’s suicide bombing to the political climate under President Vladimir Putin.Dozens of human rights defenders signed a statement published by the Memorial rights group on Monday denouncing the case as “openly political” with the goal of “intimidating Russian journalists”.
Human Rights Watch on Monday said the ruling “creates another dangerous precedent, with a journalist found guilty of a terrorism offence for normal journalistic work”.
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