Arrest and imprisonment of Dmitry Ivanov

On March 7, 2023, the Timiryazevsky Court in Moscow found Ivanov guilty under the fake news law and sentenced him to 8 and a half years of imprisonment in a correctional facility .

[13][14] In 2018, Ivanov began an anonymous Telegram channel called "Protest MSU" to advocate student grievances.

[23] In 2021, after his release from detention, Ivanov participated in the election campaign of Mikhail Lobanov, who was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for a seat in the State Duma.

[32] His friends and his mother's apartments were searched and brought in for questioning,[33] and detailed examinations of all "Protest MSU" posts undertaken.

[35] The court rejected Ivanov's appeals and his case was reclassified as an act committed without the involvement of other individuals, and his detention was extended to September 2, 2022,[36] and again to February 3, 2023.

[40]  On March 7, 2023, the Timiryazevsky Court convicted Dmitry Ivanov of disseminating "false information about the Russian armed forces" and sentenced him to 8 and a half years in a penal colony.

Among them were Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov, journalist and reporter Andrei Loshak, journalist and film critic Anton Dolin, journalist and public figure Nikolai Svanidze, journalist Anton Orekh [ru], politician Marina Litvinovich, former head of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, dissident and politician Valery Borshchev [ru], co-founder of the Yabloko party Vladimir Lukin, writer and journalist Leonid Nikitinsky [ru], human rights activist and coordinator of the Russia Behind Bars Foundation Alla Frolova, actress Mariya Shalayeva, professor and academician Arutyun Avetisyan [ru], former vice president and executive director of Transparency International Elena Panfilova, politician Konstantin Yankauskas [ru], sociologist Grigory Yudin, film director Boris Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of TV Rain channel Tikhon Dzyadko.