20:49, 4 November 2024

MIA announces publicist Boris Stomakhin wanted

Boris Stomakhin and a police car. Collage by the "Caucasian Knot". A police car. Photo: Denis Yakovlev / Yugopolis. Boris Stomakhin. Photo: Gleb Edelev https://ru.wikipedia.org/

Boris Stomakhin, a publicist, who has served prison terms for publications about the terror acts in Volgograd and the armed conflict in Chechnya, has been declared wanted. The RIA "Novosti", citing a source, has reported that Stomakhin is a figurant in a criminal case for spreading fake news about the Russian Army in connection with his posts in social networks.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on April 20, 2015, the court sentenced Stomakhin to three years of freedom deprivation for his posts about the terror acts committed in Volgograd on December 29-30, 2014. The court decided that these posts had justified terrorism. At the time of the trial, Stomakhin had already been serving a year of his sentence on charges of public justification of terrorism, calls for extremism, and incitement to hatred. He was released on September 19, 2019.

Back in 2006, Stomakhin was sentenced to five years on charges of inciting hatred through media for his articles about the armed conflict in Chechnya. He served his term in full and was released in 2011. In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the sentence violated Stomakhin's right to the freedom of expression and awarded him EUR 12,500 in compensation.

In December 2019, a few months after his release, Stomakhin left for Ukraine, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 2, 2024 at 10:48 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot