Oleg Baturin

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: September 14, 2020

Attack type:

• Pressure on a media worker via judicial and/or economic pressure on relatives and loved ones

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Journalists' Facebook page

Location: Ukraine, Kherson Oblast, Kakhovka

Additional information:

The city head of Kakhovka is putting pressure on the journalist's wife, who is a civil servant (the head of the city's Center for providing administrative services) because of the articles that Baturin published about the activities of this person. The journalist's wife was reprimanded, which led to a lawsuit. According to the court's decision, there was no reason for this reprimand, and the violations indicated as the basis, according to the job descriptions, are not included in the wife's duties at all.