Affiliated media: RFE/RL, Camera crew
Incident date: March 28, 2017
Attack type:
- Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation
Who attacked: Unknown sources
Source: OVD-Info
Location: Russia, Krasnodar Krai, Kropotkin
Additional information:
Radio Liberty employees arrived in Kropotkin to cover a "tractor march" - a protest action aimed to draw attention to the unlawful seizure of land by federal authorities in the region. Near the hotel, young men in masks with gas canisters ran up to the journalists. They beat the journalists and took away their computers, cameras and belongings.