Valery Chernitsyn

Affiliated media: Krasnoye Znamya, Editor-in-chief

Incident date: February 1, 2021

Attack type:

• Criminal/administrative prosecution excluding (1), (2) and (3)

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Krasnoye Znamya

Location: Russia, Komi Republic, Syktyvkar

Additional information:

The Syktyvkar City Court fined Chernitsyn RUB 10,000 under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation (violation of the order of holding an action) for working at a protest action on January 23. The journalist was detained that day despite having a press card. On January 28, he was detained again and a report was drawn up on him.