On 6 July, 2020, journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was sentenced by Russian court on fake terrorism charges. He was fined with 500,000 rubles (approximately US$7000). She works for the Echo of Moscow and Radio Free Europe. In her November 2018 radio broadcast on suicide bomber attack on Federal Security Service (FSB) building in Arkhangelsk, she criticized the government on its repressive policies and crackdown on free assembly & free speech that has made peaceful activism impossible. In July 2019, she was listed as “terrorists and extremists” and the authority freezes her assets. In September 2019, she was formally accused of “propaganda of terrorism” that was completely based on her Radio broadcast.