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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russian student journalists sentenced to labour over freedom of assembly video

Armen Aramyan, Natasha Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova and Volodya Metelkin
Left to right: Armen Aramyan, Natasha Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova and Volodya Metelkin, charged with inciting minors to protest, at their court hearing in Moscow on 31 March. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty

Four journalists who worked for an independent Moscow student magazine have been sentenced to two years’ “corrective labour” over an online video in which they defended young Russians’ freedom of assembly.

Former Doxa journalists Armen Aramyan, Natasha Tyshkevich, Alla Gutnikova and Volodya Metelkin had been under house arrest for almost a year after they were detained in April 2021 for posting a three-minute video on YouTube in which they said it was illegal to expel and intimidate students for participating in rallies in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

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