Anton Pantin - Justice for Journalists

Anton Pantin

Affiliated media: TochkaNews, Journalist

Incident date: April 29, 2020

Attack type:

  • Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: VKontakte account of Anton Pantin

Location: Russia, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yugorsk

Additional information:

The deputy of the Yugorsk Duma, United Russia political party member Vladimir Bendus attacked a journalist on the street. «He pursued me, insulted, swore, twisted my arms, trying to knock out the phone, used physical pressure, and in the end... attacked me from behind and took possession of my property: he snatched my phone» — Pantin describes the incident. He filed a police report.

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