Aleksandr Dorogov

Affiliated media: Independent investigative website Rosderzhava, Journalist

Incident date: August 22, 2020

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Committee to Protect Journalists

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Yegoryevsk

Additional information:

Konstantin Barkovskiy, the lawyer of Aleksandr Dorogov, journalist of Rosderzhava, reported that Dorogov was beaten in the detention centre (isolator). Dorogov was secretly transferred to another detention centre (isolator) of the Moscow City of Yegoryevsk on August 10, where he was put in the same cell with other detainees who have attacked him. While beating the journalist, they've been saying that this is «for the news stories he was filming».