{"id":139095,"date":"2025-04-16T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/russia-jails-four-journalists-who-covered-navalny\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:35:46","slug":"russia-jails-four-journalists-who-covered-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/russia-jails-four-journalists-who-covered-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia jails four journalists who covered Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139095\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Russia on Tuesday sentenced four journalists it said were associated with late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to five and a half years in a penal colony, intensifying a crackdown on press freedom and Kremlin critics. Navalny \u2014 Putin\u2019s main opponent \u2014 was declared an \u201cextremist\u201d by Russian authorities, a ruling that remains in force despite his death in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow also banned Navalny\u2019s organisations as \u201cextremist\u201d shortly before launching its 2022 Ukraine offensive and has ruthlessly targeted those it deems to have links to him. A judge sentenced the reporters \u2014 Antonina Kravtsova, Konstantin Gabov, Sergei Karelin, and Artem Kriger \u2014 who all covered Navalny to \u201cfive years and six months in a general-regime penal colony\u201d, an AFP journalist heard. They were found guilty of \u201cparticipating in an extremist group\u201d after being arrested last year.<\/p>\n<p>The trial proceeded behind closed doors at Moscow\u2019s Nagatinsky district court with only the sentencing open to the media, as has become typical for political cases in Russia amid its Ukraine offensive. Around a hundred supporters, journalists and Western diplomats came to the court for the verdicts. Supporters cheered and clapped as the defendants were led in and out and one shouted: \u201cYou are the pride of Russia!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will all appeal\u201d their sentences, said Ivan Novikov, the lawyer defending Kriger. \u201cThe sentence is unlawful and unjust,\u201d said a second lawyer for Kriger, Yelena Sheremetyeva. \u201cNo evidence was presented that these guys committed any crimes, their guilt was not proven,\u201d Gabov\u2019s lawyer Irina Biryukova said.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary of Navalny\u2019s widow Yulia, Kira Yarmysh, wrote on X that the journalists were convicted simply \u201cfor doing their job\u201d. \u201cAntonina, Artem, Sergei and Konstantin are real journalists and just honest, brave people. They should be released immediately,\u201d she wrote. Germany\u2019s foreign ministry said on X that the sentences showed that \u201cin Putin\u2019s Russia, the freedom of the press enshrined in the Constitution is worth nothing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Since Navalny\u2019s still unexplained death in an Arctic prison last year, Russian authorities have heavily targeted his family and associates. In January, three lawyers who had defended him in court were sentenced to several years in prison. Moscow has also escalated its decade-long crackdown on independent media amid its military offensive on Ukraine. Shortly after ordering troops into Ukraine in 2022, Moscow passed sweeping military censorship laws that ban criticism of its army, forcing most of the country\u2019s independent media to leave the country. The journalists sentenced on Tuesday rejected the charges of being associated with an extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>Kravtsova, 34, is a photographer who worked for the independent SOTAvision outlet and uses the pen name Antonina Favorskaya. She had covered Navalny\u2019s trials for two years and filmed his last appearance via video-link in court just two days before his death. Video correspondents Gabov and Karelin are accused of preparing photos and video material for Navalny\u2019s social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>Both had worked at times with international outlets \u2014 Gabov with Reuters and Karelin with the Associated Press and Deutsche Welle.Kriger, 24, the youngest among the accused, covered political trials and protests for SOTAvision. After the verdict, he said in court: \u201cEverything will be fine. Everything will change. Those who sentenced me will be sitting here instead of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/russia-jails-four-journalists-who-covered-navalny\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/russia-jails-four-journalists-who-covered-navalny\/\">Russia jails four journalists who covered Navalny<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,18577,5064,588],"class_list":["post-139095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-four-journalists","tag-jail","tag-russia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}