Russian authorities recently sentenced four journalists of a student-run online platform called DOXA to correctional labor. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued a statement. Here is an excerpt:

In response to a Russian court’s sentencing of four journalists from the student-run online magazine DOXA to two years each of correctional labor, the Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following statement of condemnation:

“Russian authorities’ sentencing of four student journalists to two years each of correctional labor is deeply disturbing, and shows that authorities will truly stop at nothing to stifle independent reporting,” said CPJ Europe and Central Asia Program Coordinator Gulnoza Said. “Authorities must allow the former DOXA editors to live and work freely, and must stop harassing and censoring members of the press.”

On Tuesday, April 12, the Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow sentenced Armen Aramyan, Vladimir Metelkin, Alla Gutnikova, and Natalia Tyshkevich, all former editors at DOXA, to two years each of correctional labor for allegedly involving minors in illegal protests, according to multiple media reports. The court also banned them administering any websites for three years, those reports said.

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