Anastasia Demidas

Affiliated media: Vot Tak TV, Photo correspondent

Incident date: January 31, 2021

Attack type:

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

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Vot Tak TV

Location: Russia, Moscow, Moscow

Additional information:

Vot Tak TV journalist Anastasia Demidas was detained while covering rallies in support of Alexei Navalny. Later, a Moscow court arrested her for four days. The court found her guilty of an offence under Part 6.1 of Article 20.2 (participation in an unauthorized rally). The court did not consider that Demidas worked on the rally as a journalist and had an editorial assignment with her.