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Ukrainian online media workers threatened with imprisonment by anonymous email

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Zaporizhia online media inform.zp.ua received a threatening email suggesting that its journalists would be faced with interrogation and imprisonment for supporting “Zelensky’s neonazi regime”. The letter to the editors was sent on August 22. It was sent from “Zhanna Prokshina” and had been sent via Russian email service bk.ru. It said: “Spreading disinformation about the actions of Russian troops will result in administrative and criminal punishment. Soon, all journalists who support Zelensky’s Neo-Nazi regime will be sent to investigating authorities to be questioned and charged, with subsequent deployment to penal facilities”.

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