Maksim Dmitriyev - Justice for Journalists

Maksim Dmitriyev

Affiliated media: Blogger

Incident date: March 15, 2021

Attack type:

  • request to remove or block the article and/or refutation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Mass Media Defence Centre

Location: Russia, Kostroma Oblast, Kostroma

Additional information:

The Kostroma Regional Court received a lawsuit for the protection of the right to image. The court ordered the blogger to delete the photo of the doctor Anna Degtyaryova, published in the community Emergency Kostroma in VKontakte, and to pay the plaintiff compensation in the amount of RUB 5,000 for the violation of the right to image. In the post, Dmitriyev spoke about his negative experience of treatment with Degtyaryova.

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