Personal Information
- Birth date
- 12 июл. 1976 г. (49 years old)
- Special circumstances
- journalist, parent of many children, politician
- Notes
- Editor-in-Chief of the Khakass edition "Novy Fokus. He is a two-time winner of the Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as an Act" and the first foreign laureate of the Swedish Publicists' Club Prize. Member of the Yabloko party. Has five minor children, four of whom are young children.
Afanasev Mikhail Vyacheslavovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Republic of Khakassia
- Detention date:
- 13 апр. 2022 г.
- Charges:
- Article 207.3, Part 2, Paragraph d of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
- Sentence:
- 5 years 6 months general regime
- Estimated release date:
- 9 дек. 2026 г.
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, Journalist persecution
Case Description
In April 2022, a search was conducted at Mikhail Afanasyev, the editor-in-chief of the Khakassia publication "Novy Fokus. The reason for the criminal prosecution was an article about 11 riot police officers from Khakassia who refused to fight in Ukraine. According to investigators, the journalist published false information about the number of dead and wounded Rosgvardia soldiers in Ukraine. On April 15, Afanasyeva was accused of spreading "fakes" about the Russian army using her official position. The Abakan City Court sent the journalist to a pre-trial detention center." "On September 7, 2023, the Abakan City Court found Mikhail Afanasyev guilty and sentenced him to five and a half years in a general regime penal colony. Afanasyev was also banned from posting materials on the Internet and in the media for two and a half years after his release. On December 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of Khakassia upheld the verdict.
Contact Information
Mailing Address
Афанасьев Михаил Вячеславович, 12 июля 1976 г. ФКУ ИК-35 УФСИН России по Республике Хакасия, адрес: 655017, Республика Хакасия, г. Абакан, кв. Молодёжный, 11 связь через: ФСИН-письмо; Зонателеком
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