Irina Yatsenko - Justice for Journalists

Irina Yatsenko

Affiliated media: Journalist, Activist

Incident date: August 3, 2020

Attack type:

  • Illegal impediments to journalistic activity, denial of access to information

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: OVD-Info

Location: Russia, Moscow Oblast, Balashikha

Additional information:

The bailiffs of the Zheleznodorozhny City Court forcibly removed Yatsenko from the meeting regarding the criminal case of the head of the Reutov “Yabloko” Yevgeny Kurakin, who’s being accused of fraud. The rest of the journalists and the public were not allowed into the meeting room.

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