Mikhail Bezrukikh
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war cases
- Verdict
- Corrective labour
- Date of verdict
- 2025-12-03
- Region
- Leningrad Oblast
- City
- Vyborg
Case summary
A resident of Vyborg. A case was opened against him for dissemination of knowingly false information about Russian Armed Forces because of a comment in which he wrote about an attack on a residential building in Odessa and the death of a woman and her three-month-old child as a result.
Supposedly, he was detained in June 2025. As a measure of restraint,a prohibition of certain actions was selected. In August of the same year, the case went to court. On 3 December, Bezrukikh was sentenced to two months of correctional labour.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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