Alexandr Tolmachev

Affiliated media: Upolnomochen Zayavit, Journalist

Incident date: August 13, 2018

Attack type:

• Administrative arrest, remand, pre-trial detention, prison

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Orenburg Oblast, Orenburg

Additional information:

In 2014, Alexandr Tolmachev, a journalist and editor-in-chief for the newspaper Upolnomochen Zayavit, was sentenced to 9 years in a maximum security prison on charges of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code). In August 2018, the court denied the journalist parole.