Tuapse resident sentenced to forced labour for fakes about Russian Army

The court has sentenced Ilya Yuzhakov, a resident of the city of Tuapse, to three years of forced labour, finding him guilty of distributing fakes about the Russian Army. After the detention, law enforcers had forced Yuzhakov to record a video with “repentance".

Ilya Yuzhakov’s messages and videos posted in a social network about missile and artillery strikes on Ukraine have been treated as false information, the human rights project “OVD-Info”** has reported.

After the detention of the above Tuapse resident, the channel entitled “Operative Summaries”, which is associated with law enforcers, posted a video, in which Yuzhakov said that he repented and recommended others "not to repeat his mistakes."

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported about the case of Altan Ochirov, an Elista administration employee, who was arrested under the same article in April 2022. The court sentenced him to three years in colony, but the Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia increased the term to five years.

*As reported on the website of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), the reason for including on March 1, 2024, the unregistered "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD) into the roster of foreign agents was the spread of "inaccurate information aimed at creating a negative image of the Russian Federation, as well as the Russian Armed Forces."

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