Valery Zvonarev

Affiliated media: Komsomolskaya Pravda, Photojournalist

Incident date: July 11, 2018

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Glasnost Defense Foundation

Location: Russia, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk

Additional information:

Valery Zvonarev, a photographer for the newspaper and website "Komsomolskaya Pravda", was attacked in Chelyabinsk while taking pictures for a report about an altercation between residents of a block of flats on Kalinin Street and those leading infill efforts in the yard outside. The workers objected to the journalist on the scene. "I was standing on the sidelines, filming. Two men came up to me. They shouted at me, demanding I stop filming. They started pushing me, I fell.”