Antonyna Favorskaya received the award “For courage and loyalty to the profession”

The creators of the “Red College” award established a new special award “For courage and loyalty to the profession.” The first laureate of the award was the arrested SOTAvision journalist Antonyna Favorskaya.

The journalist is accused of participating in an extremist community. This is what the Foundation for Combating Corruption, founded by Alexei Navalny, calls the consequence. According to the investigation, Favorskaya collected materials, filmed and edited videos and created publications for the foundation. Yulia Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh said yesterday that this is not true. On March 29, the court sent the journalist to the SIZO.

According to the presented article, the journalist faces up to 6 years in prison. FBK was recognized by the Russian authorities as an extremist organization in 2021.

• Favorskaya was detained on March 17 in a cafe after visiting the grave of Alexei Navalny at the Borysovsk cemetery – due to an anonymous call about an unknown crime committed. The next day, she was arrested for 10 days on charges of disobeying the police: allegedly, Favorskaya refused to show them documents, “demonstratively waved her hands, grabbed her uniform and tried to run away.”
• On March 27, the journalist was supposed to leave the Sakharovo detention center in Moscow, but on her way out she was detained again and taken home for a search.
• Antonyna Favorskaya covered court hearings on the claims of Alexei Navalny in Vladimir and Kovrov. A month before the death of the politician, the journalist went to Harp to film a report about the city where the colony where Navalny was staged was located. It was Favorskaya who shot the last video with the opposition figure on February 15.