Personal Information
- Birth date
- 14 февр. 1969 г. (57 years old)
- Special circumstances
- journalist
- Notes
- Graduate of the Moscow School of Civil Education, worked as a journalist for Forbes, Radio Liberty, spoke in support of LGBT, journalist, editor, media manager and poet from Khabarovsk, in the late eighties he published a samizdat magazine, in the noughties he headed the Far Eastern department of Kommersant and the launch of the Amurmedia publication, worked in many regional and federal publications
Mingazov Sergey Gafetdinovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Detention date:
- 26 апр. 2024 г.
- Charges:
- Article 207.3, Part 2, Paragraph d of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation
- Sentence:
- ₽2500000 fine
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, Freedom of speech, Journalist persecution
Case Description
In Khabarovsk, at the end of April 2024, a criminal case was opened for "fakes" about the Russian army against journalist Sergey Mingazov. The reason for the criminal prosecution was reposts in the Telegram channel 'Khabarovsk Mingazeta'. On April 3, 2022, Mingazov posted a repost from the Faridaily channel. It referred to the BBC about the crimes of Russian troops in Bucha. April 4 — a repost from the channel of journalist Dmitry Kolezev about the increase in evidence from Bucha. The publication also included a link to the Ministry of Defense: no civilians were harmed in Ukraine. In the third repost of the publication "Siberia.Realities" on May 10, 2023, Azatbek Omurbekov's subordinate, the commander of a Russian military unit in Bucha, spoke about direct orders to shoot civilians. According to the investigation, with these reposts, Mingazov allegedly discredited the army and the authorities, since. readers may have experienced "anxiety, a sense of worry and insecurity on the part of the state." The journalist allegedly acted from a 'non-friendly, hostile, aggressive attitude' towards the authorities. Before the election of a measure of restraint, the journalist was placed in the city's temporary detention center. April 27, 2024, the Central District Court of Khabarovsk sent Mingazov under house arrest. 26 February 2025, the Krasnoflotsky District Court of Khabarovsk found Sergey Mingazov guilty, excluded the motive of hatred or enmity from the charges, and fined him 700 thousand. rubles. Before the verdict came into force, the man was released from house arrest. On June 19, 2025, the Khabarovsk Regional Court partially granted the prosecutor's motion, finding that the court of first instance had unlawfully excluded the motive of hatred and enmity from the charges, overturned the verdict, and imposed a new sentence of a fine of 3.2 million rubles, as well as prohibited him from administering websites. Taking into account the detention in the IVS and house arrest, the court reduced the fine to 2.5 million rubles. The phone and laptop confiscated during the search were ordered to be confiscated by the court.
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