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Masha (Maria) Hessen
who
Journalists
birthday
1967-01-13
current location
Not in Russia
region
Moscow
View in the Persecution DatabaseBiography
Journalist, writer. In autumn 2023, it became known that a criminal case was opened against Gessen for disseminating deliberately false information about the Armed Forces because of an interview with Yury Dud. On 15 July, the court sentenced Gessen to 8 years in absentia and banned her from administering Internet resources for four years.
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