Alina Kondratenko

Affiliated media: Watchers.Media, Journalist

Incident date: September 23, 2020

Attack type:

• Damage to / seizure of property, vehicles, equipment, documents, journalistic materials, print media circulation

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Facebook page of Watchers.Media

Location: Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast, Kyiv

Additional information:

In the Desnyanskiy District Court of Kyiv, the accused representatives of the Berkut special unit and their lawyer aggressively obstructed the journalists of the Watchers.Media project. According to the report, they covered the camera with their hands and various objects, grabbed the camera and the phone of the journalists, tried to push the journalists out of the room, and abruptly threw their arms in the direction of the journalists' faces, imitating blows.